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To: Roads End who wrote (9517)	11/11/1998 2:19:00 PM
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BIG RAMBUS NEWS; -IBM: IBM to offer direct Rambus high-speed interface for custom logic products Presswire - November 11, 1998 14:00 M2 PRESSWIRE-11 November 1998-IBM: IBM to offer direct Rambus high-speed interface for custom logic products (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD IBM and Rambus Inc. today announced IBM has licensed the 800 MHz Direct Rambus ASIC Cell (RAC) for the company's leading-edge ASIC core library. IBM plans to incorporate the memory bus interface core into its Blue Logic family of ASIC libraries. The Direct Rambus design provides a powerful 1.6 GB/s solution to the growing performance disparities between microprocessors and memory chips, and represents a significant advancement in architecture and bandwidth for high speed memory access. In addition to its improved bandwidth capability, the Direct Rambus interface offers many new features, such as multiple power-down modes and is an extension of the Concurrent Rambus interface. IBM has held a Concurrent Rambus interface license since early 1996 and offers the 533MHz Concurrent Rambus interface in two ASIC families. "The Direct Rambus interface is an important emerging industry standard memory interface," said Allen Carl, program manager for the Rambus ASIC interface, IBM Microelectronics. "IBM's goal is to be at the forefront in providing a core-based solution for our ASIC customers." IBM plans to make the new Rambus ASIC Cell (RAC) available for customer design, in its 2.5V, 0.25 micron SA-12E and its 1.8V, 0.18 micron SA-27 ASIC families by the fourth quarter of 1998 and second quarter of 1999 respectively. IBM is a leader in custom logic, helping electronics manufacturers reduce costs and improve time-to-market with their products through the use of innovative system-on-a-chip designs. IBM's leadership design tools and methodologies, system expertise and advanced manufacturing technology have helped propel it from number five to number two in worldwide sales of ASICs, the most prevalent form of custom logic. Due to its high-bandwidth, low pin-count interface, fine memory granularity and easy expansion, Direct Rambus based ASICs can span a wide range of system applications. Examples range from large memory systems used in workstations and servers to PC main memory and small memory systems used in graphics and consumer electronics. Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), based in Mountain View, California, develops and licenses high-speed, chip-to-chip communications technology that enables semiconductor memory devices to keep pace with the faster generations of processors and controllers. Providers of Rambus-based integrated circuits include the world's leading DRAM, ASIC and PC controller manufacturers. More information on Rambus Inc. and its high-bandwidth interface technology is available at rambus.com IBM Microelectronics IBM Microelectronics develops, manufactures and markets semiconductor technologies, components and services to IBM product divisions and merchant market customers worldwide. For more information on IBM Microelectronics offerings and a broad portfolio of photographs, visit our website on: chips.ibm.com CONTACT: Helen Mitchell Tel: +44 (0)171 304 2452 e-mail: helen.mitchell@uk.ogilvypr.com Christina Chale Tel: +44 (0)171 304 2433 e-mail: christina.chale@uk.ogilvypr.com Adam Keal Tel: +44 (0)171 304 2437 e-mail: adam.keal@uk.ogilvypr.com Rupert Deighton, IBM Microelectronics, Europe Tel: +33 1 60 88 55 64 e-mail: rupertmicro@fr.ibm.com M2 COMMUNICATIONS DISCLAIMS ALL LIABILITY FOR INFORMATION PROVIDED WITHIN M2 PRESSWIRE. DATA SUPPLIED BY NAMED PARTY/PARTIES.