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Rambus Inc. (RMBS)At 4:00PM ET: 17.99  Down 0.12 (0.66%)  
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Rambus Inc.
4440 El Camino Real
Los Altos, CA 94022
United States - Map
Phone: 650-947-5000
Fax: 650-947-5001
Web Site: http://www.rambus.com

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Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Technology
Industry:Semiconductor- Memory Chips
Full Time Employees:330

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Rambus Inc. designs, develops, and licenses chip interface technologies and architectures that are used in digital electronics products. Its products include Fully Synchronous DRAM, which is designed to allow precise timing from a DRAM system; Dual Edge Clocking that is designed to allow data to be sent on the clock pulse; Variable Burst Length, which is designed to improve data transfer efficiency by allowing varying amounts of data to be sent per a memory read or write request in DRAMs and flash memory; FlexPhase technology that synchronizes data output and compensates for circuit timing errors; and Channel Equalization, which is designed to improve signal integrity and system margins by reducing inter-symbol interference in high speed parallel and serial link channels. The company also licenses its leadership architectures and chip interfaces for use in semiconductor and system products, including XDR Memory Architecture, which enables the production of DRAM; XDR2 Memory Architecture that includes DRAM micro-threading for graphics intensive applications, such as gaming and digital video; RDRAM Memory, which is used in play stations, Intel-based personal computers, televisions, and routers; and FlexIO processor bus, a high speed chip-to-chip interface, as well as provides digital logic controllers for PCI Express, DDRx memory, and other interfaces. Its products are used in computing, gaming and graphics, and consumer electronics applications, as well as in personal computers, servers, printers, video projectors, game consoles, digital TVs, set-top boxes, and mobile phones. Rambus Inc. was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Los Altos, California.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Rambus Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 6-Nov-09 is better than 70.1% of Russell 3000 companies and 54.4% of Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Harold E. Hughes Jr., 63
    Chief Exec. Officer, Pres
    $ 682.00K $ 0
    Mr. P. Michael Farmwald Ph.D., 55
    Co-Founder, Sr. Technical Advisor
    $ 40.00KN/A
    Mr. Satish Rishi , 49
    Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Sr. VP of Fin.
    $ 450.00K $ 0
    Mr. Thomas R. Lavelle , 59
    Sr. VP, Sec. and Gen. Counsel
    $ 444.00K $ 0
    Dr. Martin Scott Ph.D, 53
    Sr. VP of Research & Technology Devel.
    $ 414.00K $ 0
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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