Rambus Opens Design Center in Bangalore, India; Strong Engineering Talent Increases Design Capacity to Better Serve Growing Customer Base
BANGALORE, India—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 17, 2005—
Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), one of the world's premier
technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip
interfaces, today announced the opening of its new design center
located in Bangalore to better serve its growing customer base in Asia
and strengthen its global presence. Rambus plans to hire 50 employees
at the Bangalore facility by year's end to work on repeatable cells
and cores designed for multiple process technologies. Geoff Tate,
Chairman of the Rambus Board, will preside over official inaugural
proceedings today at 10:30am at the Rambus Bangalore office.
"To help our customers meet the increasing demands of the global
marketplace, we are expanding our business to be more accessible on a
global scale," said Geoff Tate, Chairman of the Rambus Board. "The
wealth of engineering talent in the Bangalore region convinced us that
this is the right location to establish a presence in India and will
help get our foundry-based interface designs to more customers to
solve their challenging problems in a cost-efficient manner."
The Rambus engineering teams in Bangalore will focus primarily on
the development of additional PHYs and cores based on Rambus's
industry-leading technologies, including work in the areas of
industry-standard designs such as PCI Express(1), Fibre Channel,
Serial ATA and DDR2 memory controller designs.
In 2004, Rambus opened a design center in Chapel Hill, North
Carolina when it acquired serial link assets from Velio Communications
Inc. Rambus also has regional offices in Tokyo, Japan and Taipei,
Taiwan. The new Rambus Bangalore office is located at 30, Prathiba
Complex, 4th B Cross, 5th Block, Industrial Area, Koramangala,
Bangalore.
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 problems and bring their products to
market. Rambus's 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
Bangalore, India, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Taipei, Taiwan and
Tokyo, Japan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.
(1) PCI Express is a trademark of PCI-SIG. All other trademarks
are the property of their respective parties.
Contact:
Rambus Inc.
Linda Ashmore, 650-947-5411
lashmore@rambus.com
or
Citigate Dewe Rogerson for Rambus
Jalpa Parekh, +91 22 2284 2728
jalpa@cdr-india.com
