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Winbond To Provide Rambus RDRAM Memory Devices; Leading Taiwan DRAM
RELATED SYMBOLS: (RMBS)
HSIN-CHU, TAIWAN and LOS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA, JUN 27, 2001 (CCN Newswire via
COMTEX) -- Winbond Electronics Corporation and Rambus Inc. today announced
Winbond is ramping RDRAM(R) production volume and is currently sampling 128Mb
and 256Mb RDRAMs. Winbond will support the growing demand from OEMs for RDRAMs
and RIMM(TM) modules for use in performance desktop PCs and workstations.
Winbond Electronics Corporation is the largest branded IC company in Taiwan.
Winbond's product portfolio covers PC and peripheral-related ICs, consumer
electronics ICs, multimedia ICs, SRAMs, non-volatile memory and DRAMs. In 2000,
Winbond for the first time entered the list of top ten worldwide DRAM
manufacturers by increasing its branded product shipment as percentage of the
company's total production according to International Data Corp. (IDC).
"Rambus RDRAMs will be a strategic part of our product offerings this year,"
said CC Chang, President of Winbond Electronics Corp. "Winbond is committed to
meeting the PC industry's need for higher memory bandwidth, and we intend to be
an important RDRAM supplier to PC companies."
"Winbond will be a key supplier of RDRAMs for OEMs and various channels as they
move to volume production later this year," said Dave Mooring, President of
Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS). "As a leading DRAM supplier in Taiwan, Winbond will
add local production capacity which is important to support the ramp of
Pentium4/RDRAM-based systems."
Leading PC OEMs have introduced platforms based on Intel's Pentium(R) 4
processor and RDRAM memory for higher system performance. In the Pentium 4 based
platforms, the 3.2 gigabyte per second RDRAM subsystem is optimized to meet the
bandwidth requirements of the processor's internal system bus for balanced
system performance. Users running applications such as media-intensive content
creation, streaming video, MP3 audio, as well as data mining and visualization
benefit from the increased system performance, particularly in a multitasking
environment. RDRAM memory also allows platforms to scale in performance as the
Pentium(R) 4 processor moves to even higher frequencies.
About Winbond
Winbond Electronics Corporation was founded in 1987 and is based in Hsinchu
Science-Based Park, Taiwan. It has since become the largest branded IC company
in Taiwan, offering a broad range of PC and peripheral-related ICs, consumer
electronics ICs, multimedia ICs, and memory ICs. Winbond is a market leader in
the telephone dialer, PC I/O controller, memory, speech synthesizer and MPEG
decoder markets. With four wafer fabs currently in operation, the Company
utilizes process technologies ranging from 1.0um down to 0.175um. Winbond has
more than 4,500 employees worldwide, with design centers located in Hsinchu,
Taiwan; Shanghai, China; San Jose, California; Austin, Texas; and Herzliya,
Israel.
About Rambus Inc.
Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS) designs, develops and licenses high bandwidth
chip-connection technology and provides the comprehensive engineering support
necessary for a complete system solution. Rambus' technology and intellectual
property are licensed to leading semiconductor suppliers including DRAM,
controller and microprocessor manufacturers, ASIC developers, and foundries for
use in computer, consumer and networking systems such as personal computers,
workstations, servers, game consoles, set top boxes, digital HDTVs, high-speed
switches and routers.
More information on Rambus Inc. and its high bandwidth technologies is available
at rambus.com.
Winbond is registered trademark of Winbond Electronics Corporation. Rambus and
RDRAM are registered trademarks of Rambus Inc. RIMM is a trademark of Rambus
Inc.
CONTACT: Winbond Electronics Corporation
Hander Chang
Spokesman
(886) 3 5792755
cychang@Winbond.com
or
Winbond Electronics Corporation
Mike Liu
Public Relations
(886) 3 5792516
ckliu@winbond.com.tw
or
Rambus
Kristine Wiseman
Public Relations |
