Rambus Inc. heeft z'n plannen voor het komend jaar bekend gemaakt. Op het programma staat een Double Data Rate versie met een data rate van 1,6GHz en verder zoekt Rambus nieuwe toepassingen voor Rambus DRAMs (blijkbaar loopt het Intel/PC feest niet helemaal volgens planning 
). Semiconductor Business News heeft er een nieuwsartikel over:
Rambus Inc. here today revealed plans to double the speed of its high-bandwidth memory technology to data transfer rates of 1.6 GHz during next year. Rambus' new technology roadmap also targets development of memory module bandwidth of 6.4 gigabits per second beyond 2000.[...] Rambus also said it has begun working with chip and system companies to apply its high-bandwidth technology to areas outside its initial focus of processor-to-memory bottlenecks. The Mountain View company said it is trying to address many other chip-to-chip data transfer bottlenecks that hinder costs and performance in computer, consumer and communications systems. Rambus said it expects to disclose the first results of these efforts in 2000. [break] News.com heeft tevens nieuws over de reorganisatie bij Rambus: [/break] Rambus also said it will move beyond memory into other chip-to-chip technologies, but would disclose no details.
"Rambus has made the point for quite some time now that their technology is not limited to DRAM," said Cahners In-Stat Group analyst Steve Cullen. "Basically, what they have is a way of passing signals at high speed between two chips. The networking applications they're looking at is a good place to look into next, where high speed is becoming more and more problem."
One problem facing communications and networking companies is the large number of pins on some chips. "The approach of Rambus is to make a smaller number of pins go faster," Cullen said.
