Rambus heeft vandaag bekend gemaakt dat verschillende elektronica fabriekanten zijn begonnen met de levering van HDTV's die 128Mb aan Rambus geheugen bevatten. Dit om de 'state-of-the-art' MPEG2 decoder goed te kunnen voeren met data. Verwacht wordt dat Rambus geheugen in nog veel meer HDTV's en digitale videorecorders gebruikt zal gaan worden omdat het blijkbaar een gunstige prijs performance ratio heeft voor dit soort apparatuur:
Rambus Inc. today announced that leading Japanese consumer product manufacturers have started shipping High Definition Televisions (HDTV) and digital satellite broadcast Set-Top Boxes (STB) in time for the broadcasting of the Sydney Olympic Games. Using one to two RDRAM(R) devices, for 1.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth, the Rambus(R) solution provides high-speed data transfer rates together with the lowest granularity memory subsystem.
Panasonic started shipping several models of HDTVs and high definition digital satellite broadcast set-top boxes. They incorporate a state-of-the-art MPEG2 decoder developed by Matsushita and use Rambus 128Mb RDRAM for high speed decoding memory.
Sony also announced a set-top box for high definition digital satellite broadcast. These systems incorporate a state-of-the-art MPEG2 decoder, jointly developed with NEC, and use Rambus 128Mb RDRAM to achieve 1.6GB/sec data rate for high quality digital imaging.
Other HDTV sets, set-top boxes and digital video players will be introduced for the 2000 Holiday Season, and because the Rambus solution is the most cost effective memory solution, RDRAMs are incorporated in most of these new models to achieve the required high quality digital imaging.