Ramtron Subsidiary Introduces New EDRAM Multibank EDO and Burst EDO Products.COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 26, 1996-- Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc. (Enhanced), a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq:RMTR RMTR Redesigned Missile Tracking Radar ), today announced the availability of multibank extended data out (EDO) and burst EDO versions of its enhanced dynamic random access memory Enhanced Dynamic Random Access Memory - (EDRAM) http://ruralnet.net/~prairie. (EDRAM (1) (Enhanced DRAM) A high-speed DRAM chip developed by Ramtron International Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO. It allowed overlap of a read at the trailing end of a write operation to obtain its speed. ) product family. The new variety of EDRAMs are ideal for use in a variety of high-end network communications, video graphics, and digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). applications. "These new EDRAM products add multiple cache banks and EDO, or burst EDO, features to our original EDRAM architecture," explained David Bondurant, director of marketing for Enhanced. "We now have eighteen EDRAM product and packaging options available that offer one of the best cost-for-performance values in the memory market." Specialty DRAMs have emerged recently to address the proliferation and widened variety of high performance computing systems. The relatively slow speed of traditional DRAM technology does not satisfy the data delivery requirements of today's high-speed microprocessors. To overcome this inefficiency, system designers have been forced to supplement the DRAM with fast but expensive static RAM to allow microprocessors to run at peak levels. The EDRAM efficiently merges DRAM and SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory capability into a single chip, allowing the development of less costly, high-performance systems. The Enhanced EDRAM competes in the rapidly growing specialty dynamic random access memory Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a type of random access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. Since real capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically. (DRAM) market. Instat, a semiconductor market research firm based in Arizona, estimates the specialty DRAM market will grow from $3 billion in 1996, to more than $14.5 billion by 1998. Enhanced Memory Systems develops and markets the enhanced dynamic random access memory (EDRAM), a high-performance specialty memory that combines DRAM and SRAM caches on one chip (patent pending). Enhanced is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colorado The City of Colorado Springs is the second most populous city (after Denver) in the state of Colorado and the 48th most populous city in the United States.[4] The city is the county seat of El Paso County. , and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ramtron International Corporation. For more information about Ramtron International Corporation or Enhanced Memory Systems, contact: Communications Department, Ramtron International Corporation, 1850 Ramtron Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado USA, 80921. Telephone 800/545-3726; fax 719/481-9294; e-mail info@ramtron.com; web page http://www.csn.net/ramtron. -0- Note to Editors: Product photography available on request CONTACT: Ramtron International Corp. Lee A. Brown, 719/481-7213 |
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