ADVISORY/Rambus to Demonstrate New Products and Technologies at DesignCon 2003.

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DesignCon 2003

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (January 28)

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WHO:        Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS)

WHAT:       Rambus will showcase several of its leading memory and
            logic interface products such as RDRAM, Yellowstone and
            RaSer X, the company's 10 Gbps backplane solution at its
            booth (#503).

            Rambus will also be addressing a range of topics at
            DesignCon 2003.

WHEN:       Booth demonstrations: Tuesday-Wednesday, January 28-29,
            2003

            Sessions:

            --  Tuesday, January 28, 2:00 p.m.-2:50 p.m.
                "Design and Simulation of a RDRAM Channel with 32-Bit
                5.33 Gbps Memory" (Session # HP 3-4)

            --  Wednesday, January 29, 9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
                "Physical-Layer Design and Characterization of a
                3.2-Gbps/Pair Memory Channel" (Session # HP1-9)

            --  Wednesday, January 29, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
                "Challenges at 90 Nanometers" Plenary Panel
                Speaker: Kevin Donnelly, vice president, logic
                interface division

            --  Wednesday, January 29, 3:00 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
                "Design, Modeling, and Characterization of High-Speed
                Backplane Interconnects" (Session # HP3-11)

WHERE:      Santa Clara Convention Center
            5001 Great America Parkway
            Santa Clara, CA

About Rambus Inc.

Rambus is the leading provider of breakthrough chip-to-chip interface technology, solutions and services. The company's technology and engineering expertise have helped leading chip and system companies to solve their challenging interface problems and bring industry-leading products to market. Rambus' interface products can be found in hundreds of computing, networking and consumer electronic products. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.

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