SiS Selects Rambus PCI Express PHY Solutions for Its PC Chipset Products; Cost-Sensitive and High-Performance Chipset Products to Benefit from High-Volume, Silicon-Proven PHY Cells.TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities RMBS Rambus, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) RMBS Russian Mortgage-Backed Securities ), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip interfaces, and Silicon Integrated Systems Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS, Traditional Chinese: 矽統科技) is a company that manufactures, among other things, motherboard chipsets. The company was founded in 1987 in Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan. Corp. (SiS) (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :2363), a worldwide leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of leading-edge logic products, today announced that SiS has licensed Rambus' PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. (1) PHY See physical layer and physical. cells for use in its PC core logic products. SiS core logic chipsets address the high-volume PC market, featuring the latest technology for Intel and AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. processor-based PCs. The license agreement covers Rambus PCI Express PHY technology for implementation in multiple process geometries for the SiS product line of PC chipsets. Optimized for link utilization, latency, power consumption and silicon footprint, the Rambus PHY cells address SiS' southbridge and northbridge products. SiS combines professional chip design with advanced semiconductor manufacturing technologies, offering its customers a broad range of PC, notebook, Wireless LAN A local area network that transmits over the air typically in the 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz unlicensed frequency band. It does not require line of sight between sender and receiver. Wireless base stations (access points) are wired to an Ethernet network and transmit a radio frequency over an area and Information Appliances products that incorporate leading-edge logic products. "With this license agreement, SiS and Rambus continue their long standing collaboration of bringing the most advanced high-speed interfaces to leading edge chipset products," said Daniel Chen, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SiS. "By incorporating Rambus' proven, high quality PHY IP in our products, we can address the time-to-market needs of our system customers and continue to offer the latest technology advancements in our line of products." Rambus' PCI Express PHY cells are complete serial communication cells optimized for implementing the physical layer of the PCI Express standard. The silicon-proven serial interfaces feature point-to-point, full duplex (Computers) arranged so that the information may be transmitted in both directions simultaneously; - of communications channels between computers; contrasted with (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). specifications as open industry standards. "As one of the three largest computer chipset manufacturers in the world, SiS has the capability to bring the broadest range of core logic chipset products to a wide range of computer users," said Laura Stark, vice president of the Platform Solutions Group at Rambus. "These users can now benefit from the most widely compliant and interoperability-tested high-performance PCI Express PHY cells available today." The Rambus PCI Express PHY design is available on multiple foundry and captive processes at process nodes ranging from 180nm to 65nm. The PHY cells are in production in high-volume applications such as PC graphics, chipsets, switch and bridge chips. The complete Rambus solution consists of the Rambus PCI Express PHY cells and the Rambus PCI Express digital controller. Rambus PCI Express digital controllers are highly configurable cores, available in end point, root complex, switch port, and hybrid (root complex and end point) configurations. The architecture is tailored to optimize link utilization, latency, power consumption and silicon footprint. For more information on Rambus' complete PCI Express offering, visit www.rambus.com/products/pciexpress. About Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. Silicon Integrated Systems Corp. (SiS) is a worldwide leader in the development, manufacturing and marketing of leading-edge logic products, including core logic, multimedia, connectivity and information appliances. The company was founded in 1987 in the Hsin-chu Science-based Industrial Park in Taiwan and has been listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSEC) Established in 1961, the only centralized securities market in Taiwan. (TSE:2363) since August 1997. SiS combines professional chip design with advanced semiconductor manufacturing technologies. SiS chipsets support the latest Intel(R) and AMD(TM) processors. For more information, please visit www.sis.com. About Rambus Inc. Rambus is one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in the invention and design of high-speed chip interfaces. Since its founding in 1990, the company's innovations, breakthrough technologies and integration expertise have helped industry-leading chip and system companies solve their most challenging and complex 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 problems and bring their products to market. Rambus' interface solutions can be found in numerous computing, consumer, and communications products and applications. Rambus is headquartered in Los Altos, Calif., with regional offices in Chapel Hill, North Carolina Chapel Hill is a town in North Carolina and the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), the oldest state-supported university in the United States. As of the 2000 census, it had a population of 48,715. As of 2004 its estimated population was 52,440. ; Bangalore, India; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tokyo, Japan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com. (1) PCI Express is a trademark of PCI Express Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG). Rambus and the Rambus logo are registered trademarks of Rambus Inc. All other trade names are the service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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