Agilent Technologies Ships Industry-First 32-Site Gigabit Data Rate Memory Production Test System -- Purchased by Samsung.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 9, 2000 Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) today announced that Samsung has purchased and taken delivery of an Agilent 95000 High-Speed Memory (HSM (1) (Hierarchical Storage Management) The automatic movement of files from hard disk to slower, less-expensive storage media. The typical hierarchy is from magnetic disk to optical disc to tape. ) Series for production testing of 32 high-speed memory devices simultaneously on a single test head. This marks the first time the high-speed memory system, announced at the International Test Conference in September 1999, has been shipped. Samsung has multiple 16-site Agilent 95000 HSM test systems in production testing of high speed memories, including RDRAMs, and has now added the new 32-site system for additional capacity. The new system can test up to 32 Rambus(R) DRAMs, Synchronous DRAMS Synchronous DRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory , or DDR SDRAMs See DDR. on a single test head. The 32-site Agilent 95000 lowers the cost of test for testing high speed memories such as RDRAMs compared to other test systems shipping today. The faster "read/write" times of the Rambus DRAM See RDRAM. (storage) Rambus DRAM - (RDRAM) A high bandwidth DRAM, designed by Rambus, Inc. of Mountain View, CA. RDRAM is used mainly for video accelerators, and also in the Ultra 64 from Nintendo. reduce test times so dramatically that it is less expensive to test 800 megabit-per-second data rate RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) Pronounced "r-d-ram." A dynamic RAM chip technology from Rambus, Inc., Los Altos, CA (www.rambus.com). Rambus licensed its memory designs to semiconductor companies, which manufactured the chips. on the Agilent 95000 than to test PC 133 Synchronous DRAM on lower-speed, lower price-per-site ATE testers. "Agilent has been instrumental in the development, characterization and production test of Rambus DRAMS," said John Scruggs, senior vice president and general manager of Agilent's Automated Test Group. "We are particularly proud that Samsung, the largest memory manufacturer worldwide for the past several years, has chosen to work with us to test their leading edge memory products." About the Agilent 95000 HSM Series The Agilent 95000 HSM series offers a complete, single-pass high-speed memory test solution for devices with data rates up to 1Gbit/sec. With up to 32 sites, the Agilent 95000's Test Processor-per-Pin architecture provides complete memory test resources, including an algorithmic pattern generator and full-logic test capability behind every pin. More information about the Agilent 95000 HSM Series and Agilent's other semiconductor test solutions can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com/go/semiconductor. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a diversified technology company, resulting from Hewlett-Packard Company's plan to strategically realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. itself into two fully independent companies. With 42,000 employees serving customers in more than 120 countries, Agilent Technologies is a global leader in designing and manufacturing test, measurement and monitoring instruments, systems and solutions, and semiconductor and optical components. The company serves markets that include communications, electronics, life sciences and healthcare. The businesses comprising Agilent, a subsidiary of HP, had net revenues of more than $8.3 billion in fiscal year 1999. Information about Agilent Technologies can be found on the Web at www.agilent.com. Note to Editors: Rambus is a trademark of Rambus Inc. |
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