Toshiba Inks Licensing Deal with Rambus
Staff Reporter -- EDN, July 5, 2006
Rambus Inc. has signed a new patent license agreement with Toshiba Corp., granting Toshiba a license to Rambus patents for SDRAM and DDR SDRAM memory controllers.
Toshiba currently holds technology licenses for the use of Rambus' XDR memory solution and its DDR2 interface shells, along with its FlexIO processor bus interface.
Additionally, Toshiba has licensed various Rambus serial link interface designs, including those for the company’s advanced backplane, fibre channel and PCI Express applications.
"Toshiba was our first patent licensee and we are pleased to continue this long and valuable relationship with a trusted partner," Sharon Holt, Rambus' senior VP of sales, licensing and marketing, said in a statement. "Our focus of licensing industry-leading companies with both our products and patents continues to help push the boundaries of what our collective engineering teams can accomplish. We look forward to many years of development with Toshiba."
Financial terms of the deal were not announced.
