Enhanced Memory Systems Ships
First True PC-133 HSDRAM DIMM
Modules Geared Towards
Computer Gamers, High-Performance Computer
Users
www.pc133memory.com Storefront Begins Commercial Sales
Enhanced Memory Systems to Demo PC-133 HSDRAM at E3'99, May
13-15
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 27, 1999-- Enhanced
Memory Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ramtron International
Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR - news), today announced the first production
shipments of its 64 Megabyte (MB) and 128MB PC-133 high-speed SDRAM
(HSDRAM) DIMM modules targeted at computer gamers and other
high-performance computer users. These new memory modules conform to
the proposed JEDEC PC-133 SDRAM timing specification but provide lower
latency (3:2:2) and faster clock access times (4.6 ns). The faster modules
allow existing 100 MHz SDRAM motherboards to clock the front side bus as
fast as 150 MHz under some conditions. Enhanced Memory Systems is
scheduled to provide demos of the PC-133 HSDRAM at the Electronic
Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, May 13-15, 1999 in booth No. 7148
(in Kentia Hall in the Los Angeles Convention Center).
Enhanced Memory Systems is offering the new HSDRAM DIMM modules for
sale to end-users and computer resellers through the company's newly
launched commercial Web storefront, www.pc133memory.com. The
products will also be available to OEMs through Enhanced Memory Systems
sales representatives.
''Our HSDRAM provides a higher performance upgrade to the emerging
PC-133 main memory standard, as well as enabling users to achieve
optimum bus speeds,'' said Craig Rhodine, Enhanced Memory Systems vice
president and general manager. ''With our new Web storefront, we are the
first company to sell true PC-133 products directly to computer users and
resellers. Our HSDRAM products set the stage for marketing even faster
PC-166 64Mbit ESDRAM products planned for next year.''
Within a few months, commercial chipsets will become available that
support PC-133 SDRAM memory in desktop and notebook PCs,
workstations, and server applications. HSDRAM will provide an easy
upgrade path for these systems.
High Performance DRAM Products
Enhanced Memory Systems is a leading specialty DRAM company.
Enhanced Memory began shipping its first low latency EDRAM products in
1992. In November 1996, Enhanced Memory Systems announced its new
133 MHz enhanced synchronous DRAM (ESDRAM). This ESDRAM became
an official JEDEC SDRAM Superset standard and was sampled in 1998. The
PC-133 HSDRAM products continue the Enhanced Memory Systems
tradition of supplying the highest performance plug-compatible memory
upgrade products.
Enhanced Memory Systems is a fabless DRAM company with manufacturing
agreements with companies including Siemens Semiconductors (Infineon)
and IBM Microelectronics, and is pursuing other strategic partnerships to
advance its EDRAM, ESDRAM, HSDRAM technology in the marketplace.
Enhanced Memory Systems products serve the DRAM, specialty DRAM and
fast SRAM markets, which are expected to grow to more than $56 billion by
the year 2001, according to In-Stat, a leading semiconductor research firm.
Ramtron/Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc.
Enhanced Memory Systems develops and markets patented EDRAM high
performance specialty memories that combine fast DRAM and SRAM on one
chip. Enhanced Memory Systems is headquartered in Colorado Springs,
Colorado and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ramtron International
Corporation (Nasdaq: RMTR - news).
For more information about Ramtron and its products, contact
Communications Department, Ramtron International Corporation, 1850
Ramtron Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, 80921. Telephone is
800/545-FRAM (3726); FAX is 719/481-9294; E-mail address is
edraminfo@ramtron.com. Homepage is www.ramtron.com and
www.edram.com.
EDRAM is a registered trademark of Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc.
Contact:
Ramtron
Lee A. Brown, 719/481-7213
or
Pacifico, Inc.
Mary P. Curtis, 408/293-8600
or
Enhanced Memory
David Bondurant, 719/481-7003 |
