Ramtron subsidiary shows growth with management additions, new sales office, trademark.COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1997--Ramtron International Corp.'s (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :RMTR RMTR Redesigned Missile Tracking Radar ) 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. , Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc. announced today that it has expanded its management team, opened a new sales office and officially registered the 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. trademark. Enhanced promoted Craig Rhodine to vice president and general manager and added two key sales and applications engineering personnel. In addition, the company has opened a Northern California sales office to serve North America's West Coast and the Pacific Rim, and registered the EDRAM product name with the U.S. trademark office. "Our corporate growth reflects the increasing interest in our EDRAM and enhanced synchronous DRAM (ESDRAM ESDRAM Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory ESDRAM Enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Ram ) products around the world," explained Craig Rhodine, vice president and general manager of Enhanced. "We will continue to replace static random access memory Static random access memory (SRAM) is a type of semiconductor memory. The word "static" indicates that the memory retains its contents as long as power remains applied, unlike dynamic RAM (DRAM) that needs to be periodically refreshed (nevertheless, SRAM should not be confused with (SRAM) in fast, real-world systems for one-third the cost." New Personnel and Promotion Craig Rhodine has been promoted to vice president and general manager of Enhanced. He also serves on Enhanced's board of directors. Rhodine has 12 years of engineering and management experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to Enhanced, Rhodine was a member of the Group Technical Staff at Texas Instruments. He holds a bachelor's of science in electrical engineering from the University of Wyoming UW is a national research university prominent in the fields of environment and natural resource research, specializing in agriculture, energy, geology, and water resource related fields. . Patrick Cash has joined Enhanced as director of worldwide sales. Cash has 22 years experience in sales and marketing with such companies as Burr-Brown, General Instruments, Control Data Corp. and Motorola. He holds a bachelor's of science in electrical engineering from the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. Michael Peters has joined Enhanced as applications engineering manager. Peters has 15 years of applications engineering experience with Motorola's fast SRAM division, nCHIP and National Semiconductor. He has published articles and applications notes on fast memory, and holds a bachelor's of science in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan (body, education) University of Michigan - A large cosmopolitan university in the Midwest USA. Over 50000 students are enrolled at the University of Michigan's three campuses. The students come from 50 states and over 100 foreign countries. , Ann Arbor. Peters was a contributor to portions of "High Performance Memories," Betty Prince, 1996. Sales Office for West Coast and Pacific Rim Enhanced has opened a sales office in San Jose, CA to serve North America's West Coast and the Pacific Rim countries. John VanConant is now the area's director of sales. VanConant has 22 years experience at Burroughs, Texas Instruments and Honeywell. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Michigan State University Michigan State University, at East Lansing; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1855. It opened in 1857 as Michigan Agricultural College, the first state agricultural college. . The San Jose office can be reached at 408/464-9456 or jvanconant@ramtron.com . EDRAM(R) Memory Becomes Registered Trademark The U.S. Trademark Office has awarded Enhanced Memory Systems with a registered trademark for its EDRAM(R) memory products. Enhanced has previously received a registered trademark for its Quickcache(R) logo. Enhanced Memory Systems Enhanced Memory Systems develops and markets the EDRAM(R) memory, a high performance specialty memory that combines DRAM and SRAM on one chip (patent pending). Enhanced is headquartered in Colorado Springs, Colo., and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ramtron International Corp. (NASDAQ:RMTR). For more information about Ramtron and its products, contact: Communications Department, Ramtron International Corp., 1850 Ramtron Drive, 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. , USA, 80921. Telephone is 800/545-FRAM (3726); FAX is 719/481-9294; E-mail address is info@ramtron.com . Homepage is http://www.csn.net/ramtron . -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: EDRAM is a registered trademark of Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc. CONTACT: Ramtron International Corp. Lee A. Brown, 719/481-7213 |
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