Rambus Incorporated (NASDAQ: RMBS), founded in 1990, is a provider of high-speed interface technology. The company became particularly well known for its aggressive intellectual property based litigation practices following the introduction of DDR-SDRAM memory.
Rambus, a California company, was incorporated in 1990 and re-incorporated in Delaware in 1997. The company was listed on NASDAQ in 1997 under the code RMBS. As of February 2006, Rambus de...
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Rambus Incorporated (NASDAQ: RMBS), founded in 1990, is a provider of high-speed interface technology. The company became particularly well known for its aggressive intellectual property based litigation practices following the introduction of DDR-SDRAM memory.
Rambus, a California company, was incorporated in 1990 and re-incorporated in Delaware in 1997. The company was listed on NASDAQ in 1997 under the code RMBS. As of February 2006, Rambus derived the majority of its annual revenue by licensing patents for chip interfaces to its customers.
Companies such as AMD, Elpida, Infineon, Intel, Matsushita, NECEL, Qimonda, Renesas, Sony, and Toshiba have taken licenses to Rambus patents for use in their own products.
Rambus' share price has ranged between a high of nearly $150 in 2000 to a low of approxmiately $3 in 2002 with a 4:1 split on June 15, 2000.
The first PC motherboards with support for RDRAM debuted in 1999. They supported PC800 RDRAM, which operated at 400 MHz but presented...
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