Enhanced Memory Systems ESDRAM Replaces Burst SRAM in Embedded System Applications
ESDRAM Commercial & Industrial Temperature Parts Move to Volume Production
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1999--Enhanced Memory Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq:RMTR - news), today announced that its 16Mbit Enhanced SDRAM (ESDRAM) products have moved to volume production and are available in commercial and industrial temperature versions. The ESDRAM integrates a fast 37.5 nanosecond (ns) cycle time DRAM core with 11 ns row register caches on a single chip to achieve performance similar to burst SRAM. 16Mbit ESDRAM offers four times higher density, eight times lower active power, and much lower cost per bit than equivalent 4Mbit burst SRAM. It also competes directly with recently announced 16Mbit SRAM in communications, DSP and embedded computer applications at significantly lower prices.
``Our ESDRAM products replace expensive SRAM in embedded systems,' said David Bondurant, Enhanced Memory Systems vice president of marketing. ``Communications, DSP, 3-D graphic, and embedded computer customers can get SRAM speed at lower power and lower cost.'
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