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Rambus Shows Off Hardware From ItsTerabyte Bandwidth Initiative

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Rambus, the company most known for its rampage of patent lawsuits on all things memory, may soon be better known for something else. The company announced a Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative last year, in which it set a goal of developing a future memory architecture capable of delivering a terabyte per second of memory bandwidth to a single System-on-Chip (SoC), and Rambus showed at IDF that it's getting ever closer to that goal.

On display was a DRAM emulator pushing 16Gbps, a key hurdle in making a terabyte of bandwidth possible. However, the test chips were only single channel, putting a slight damper on the display. Still, if Rambus can bring to fruition its new memory architecture, which it looks to be well on its way to doing, it could usher in a new era of high performance memory products.

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avatarAnd here I figured they were

And here I figured they were going to go into the accident law field after they were done suing everyone over memory patents that were given perhaps a little too easily. Come on I'm sure some of those patents were issued that were frivolous. I mean come on Rambus did not invent the memory stick for crying out loud.

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