Rambus is going into business selling memory chipsets for servers, breaking from its traditional design and licensing business.
Rambus is famous for perhaps two things: the weird memory used in some Pentium 4-era systems, and and a long parade of patent court cases that saw the company reposition itself as a “technology licensing company” designing high-speed memory systems. The plan was for other memory companies to license the technology and build it into their own systems.
The new announcement marks a big change from that business. Although Rambus will not actually be manufacturing the chips itself—it will join the ranks of Qualcomm, NVIDIA, AMD, and others as a fabless manufacturer, responsible for the design of the chips but contracting a third party to build the things—it has designed the complete chipset, not just portions of the technology, and it will be selling them too.
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