PNY to Manufacture Direct Rambus(TM) Memory Modules
PNY Licensed by RAMBUS to Manufacture, Sell, and Distribute RIMM(TM) Memory Modules
PARSIPPANY, N.J., March 8 /PRNewswire/ -- PNY Technologies, Inc., a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of memory and CPU upgrade products, announced today the signing of a partnership agreement with RAMBUS, Inc. to design, manufacture, and sell Direct RAMBUS memory modules, or RIMM's. The agreement grants to PNY the rights for RIMM manufacture at each of its worldwide facilities at Parsippany, New Jersey; Santa Clara, California; and Bordeaux, France. Initial design and manufacture will be done at the Santa Clara facility with a phase in at the other locations as the market for the new technology expands. Although initially targeted for contract manufacturing and OEM solutions, this agreement broadens PNY's primary roles as an after-market supplier of state-of-the-art upgrade memory to include the industry's latest memory technology for offering high-bandwidth memory solutions.
''The signing of the Direct Rambus(TM) RIMM(TM) agreement reaffirms PNY's commitment to our customers as the supplier of choice for the broad spectrum of memory technologies,'' said Robert Wavra, Director of Engineering of PNY. ''Offering peak data transfer rates of 1.6 Gbytes/sec., Rambus(TM) promises to provide the highest level of memory performance available to date ... approximately three times that of current SDRAM.''
''In addition to high performance, the Direct Rambus DRAM introduced the uBGA package into the high volume memory module manufacturing world, which has been recently dominated by the TSOPII package,'' said Larry Alchesky, Engineering Manager at PNY Santa Clara. ''This will require state-of-the-art placement and inspection equipment to insure RIMM modules are manufactured to the high quality standards PNY's customers have come to expect. PNY is committed to providing the assembly, inspection, test and support resources to introduce this new technology.''
RAMBUS RIMMs are expected to see applications first in high-end desktop personal computers followed by servers and workstations, with a migration into other high-bandwidth applications as they develop for ever-improving video, multimedia, and communications needs. The technology spans multiple generations of DRAM devices from 32MB to 1GB densities. PNY's initial offerings will include 32MB thru 256MB capacities using 4, 6, 8, 12, and 16 chip solutions.
PNY Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company with its Corporate Headquarters in Parsippany, N.J. and advanced manufacturing and testing facilities in Parsippany, N.J.; Santa Clara, Cal.; and Bordeaux, France. For more information on PNY and its products, please contact PNY Technologies, Inc., at 800-PNY-7079, or visit its website at pny.com. |
