ALi Licenses Rambus PCI Express PHY Technology; Partnership Will Enable Broad Adoption of PCI Express Chipsets for PC Desktop and Mobile Systems.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LOS ALTOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 2003 Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities RMBS Rambus, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) RMBS Russian Mortgage-Backed Securities ), a leading provider of chip-to-chip interface products and services, and ALi Corporation, a leading provider in the integrated circuits industry, today announced that ALi has licensed Rambus' RaSer(TM) IP cell for PCI Express applications. ALi will integrate the RaSer cell in its mainstream core logic chipset products further enabling the broad adoption of PCI Express for desktop and mobile computing systems. "PCI Express is the emerging serial interconnect technology for desktop, mobile and server applications," said Eric Chen, official spokesman of ALi Corporation. "Through this collaboration with Rambus, we will be able to provide our customers with a proven, high-speed PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Express-based chipsets that will allow them to achieve optimized system performance and functionality, and design products that can be built at the most cost effective level." The Rambus RaSer PHY See physical layer and physical. cell for PCI Express applications is a complete serial communication cell optimized for implementing the physical layer of the PCI Express standard. The RaSer PHY is based on a proven SerDes cell used in multiple applications including InfiniBand(TM) and Ethernet XAUI XAUI 10 Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface XAUI Extended Auxiliary Unit Interface XAUI XSBI Attachment Unit Interface (IEEE 802.3ae) XAUI Ten Gbps Attachment Unit Interface products. In addition, Rambus offers a configurable Physical Coding Sublayer The Physical Coding Sublayer (PCS) further helps to define physical layer specifications for ethernet. The Ethernet PCS sublayer is part of the Ethernet PHY layer. The hierarchy is as follows: (PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. ) as a synthesizeable RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; core to provide customers a flexible interface to the PCI Express MAC and upper logic layers. All Rambus RaSer cells are available with a comprehensive set of standard chip design tools for seamless integration into customer design flows. In addition, Rambus' IC package, board and system design support helps ensure fast time-to-market. "Rambus is focused on bringing high-speed I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output to mainstream, cost-sensitive markets," said Kevin Donnelly, vice president of the Logic Interface Division at Rambus. "Through this partnership, ALi's PCI Express-based products and its PC OEM customers will benefit from Rambus' comprehensive design support and extensive experience enabling high speed technology to the volume PC market." About ALi ALi Corporation is the world's leading supplier of integrated circuits for the PC, peripherals and multimedia arena. Its product offerings include core logic chipsets, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. products and imaging peripherals. ALi is well positioned to deliver comprehensive solutions for this world of 3C integration. Information about ALi is available at www.ali.com.tw. About Rambus Inc. Rambus is a leading provider of chip-to-chip interface products and services. The company's breakthrough technology and engineering expertise have helped leading chip and system companies to solve their challenging I/O problems and bring industry-leading products to market. Rambus' interface solutions can be found in numerous computing, consumer electronic and networking products. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com. Rambus is a registered trademark and RaSer is a trademark of Rambus Inc. PCI Express is a trademark of PCI-SIG. Other trademarks that may be mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners. |
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