HP Licenses Rambus Interface
BusinessWire, Tuesday, February 02, 1999 at 12:18
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 1999--Hewlett-Packard
Company and Rambus Inc. today announced that HP has licensed Rambus
interface technology and intends to offer Rambus memory subsystems to
a variety of HP system divisions.
HP provides a broad range of computer systems, peripheral systems
and instrumentation products.
"Rambus offers the performance required by future HP systems
applications," said Dick Chang, general manager of HP's Integrated
Circuit Business Division (ICBD). The division designs and
manufactures integrated circuits for a wide variety of HP products.
"The 800MHz Rambus ASIC Cell (RAC) is a strategic part of our
core-based offerings to our internal systems development teams."
Rambus memory technology will enable the dynamic RAM (DRAM)
industry's highest level of performance to date -- 1.6 gigabytes per
second of peak bandwidth from a single RDRAM(R) device -- and will
span multiple generations of DRAM devices. More than 50 leaders in
system-memory implementation products -- including memory modules,
connectors, clock chips and test systems -- have announced plans or
products supporting the technology.
"HP is the systems leader in providing advanced technologies
across the broadest range of computer systems, peripheral systems, and
test and measurement products," said Subodh Toprani, vice president
and general manager for Rambus' Logic Products Division. "Access to
Rambus technology, in conjunction with HP's computer architecture and
technology strengths, will help more computer users take advantage of
emerging CPU-intensive and video-streaming applications." |
