Rambus News

Under the acquisition, the Unity team members have joined Rambus to continue developing innovations and offerings for next-generation non-volatile memory.

Technology licensing company Rambus said Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with chipmaker Nvidia to settle a long-running patent dispute.

Rambus Inc. : BWS Financial believes Rambus' settlement with NVIDA is a significant positive surprise since it brings an end to a costly legal battle for the company.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -; Technology licensing company Rambus Inc. said Wednesday it has signed a licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia Corp.

Rambus Inc., a memory-chip designer that gets most of its revenue from royalties, rose as much as 10 percent after reaching a patent agreement with Nvidia Corp., ending a legal battle over graphics technology.

Rambus Inc. , which gets most of its sales from royalties, said it signed a patent agreement with Nvidia Corp ., settling all claims with the chipmaker.

Many of you are familiar with the DRAM chips that are used in computers. The size of the chips basically determine how many programs your computer can have running.

Patent portfolio house Rambus has announced that it has acquired the privately-held Unity Semiconductor lock, stock and barrel for $35 million in cash.

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February 6, 2012 -- Rambus Inc. , one of the world's premier technology licensing companies, today announced it has acquired privately-held Unity Semiconductor, an innovative memory technology company for an aggregate of $35 million in cash.

Sunnyvale-based Rambus is a technology licensing company. Unity is a private company specializing in memory technology.

Chip technology licensor Rambus Inc. has announced it has acquired Unity Semiconductor Corp., a developer of non-volatile memory technology for an aggregate sum of $35 million in cash.

The "Next-generation Electronic Products" panel will focus on enhancing the global market position for with next generation electronic product technologies in response to consumer market drivers, such as touch mania, augmented reality, wireless, power and consumer mindset.

Thomas & Betts Corp. : ABB and Thomas & Betts announced that both companies' boards of directors have agreed to a transaction in which ABB will acquire Thomas & Betts for $72 per share in cash or approximately $3.9B. The acquisition price represents a 24% premium to Thomas & Betts' closing stock price on Jan.

At DesignCon 2012, Rambus engineers and scientists will present 10 technical papers on topics such as signal integrity, high-speed memory design and semiconductor security.

U.S. Patent # 6,591,353, "Protocol for Communication with Dynamic Memory," tends to refer to a "memory device." The innovation with respect to this device appeared to be the introduction of a synchronous clock.

The last of three patents that tech licensing company Rambus used to win infringement lawsuits against Nvidia Corp , Hewlett-Packard and others has been declared invalid, according to legal documents.

Quarterly revenue dropped on both a sequential and year-over-year basis. Although annual revenue of $312.4 million was a beat in CEO Harold Hughes' eyes, it represented a slump from 2010.

The top after-market NASDAQ Losers Thursday were: 1-800 FLOWERS.COM, Riverbed Technology, BroadVision, Rambus, Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, TeleNav, Cbeyond, Oclaro, CIENA Corp and Aruba Networks.

Rambus Inc. , one of the world's premier technology licensing companies, today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011.