14 DAY TRIAL // Being around for about 25 years, the American company Rambus decided it will start selling its own branded hardware for servers.
This is a radical change from what Rambus used to do for years on end when it simply sold licenses to many hardware manufacturers. Unfortunately, this didn't go well for a long time and eventually it led other chip manufacturers to commit copyright infringements that Rambus had to red flag and settle in court.
This sort of tactic basically had the company accused of patent trolling, something that it was unjustly accused of since all the patents were licensed to the client companies. To remove this sort of stigma Rambus had to suffer, it managed to settle its dispute with copyright infringers and start anew, as a powerful brand.
To demonstrate this growing effort, Rambus introduced on Monday its new server dedicated memory modules, the RB26, an R+ DDR4 server memory chipset for RDIMMs and LRDIMMs. Being part of a new family of R+ chips, the company describes the RB26 as JEDEC-compliant dedicated for data-intensive applications that include real-time analytics, virtualizations and in-memory computing, adding increased speed, reliability and power-efficiency.
This time everybody will know who this DIMM IP belongs to
The new JEDEC compliant chipset will be compatible with all microprocessors and will allow memory users to build 128GB or 256Gb memory modules from the RB26 DDR4 RDIMM and LRDIMM chipsets, allowing them to operate at 2666MHz – 2933MHz while also being very reliable and efficient.
At this moment the new chipsets are in tests at different potential customers and ecosystem partners, while Rambus prepares to present its new memory kits in detail at IDF (Intel Developer Forum) today, August 18, in San Francisco
There are no words about Rambus closing its licensing business, since it's the company's main revenue still, however, if the new memory modules are successful, we could see the company push ahead with its own products and become a worthwhile American brand.
