Rambus Inc (NASDAQ:RMBS)

Rambus, Inc. is a intellectual property and technology licensing company. The company focuses on the creation, design, development and licensing of patented innovations, technologies and architectures that are foundational to nearly all digital electronics products and systems. Rambus's patented innovations and technologies aim to improve the performance, power efficiency, time-to-market and cost-effectiveness of its customers' products, components and systems offered and used in semiconductors, computers, mobile applications, gaming and graphics, consumer electronics, lighting displays and general lighting. The company's technology solutions include the XDRTM, XDRTM2, Mobile XDRTM and RDRAMTM memory architectures and the FlexIOTM processor bus. Rambus has two business groups: Semiconductor Business group and New Business group. The Semiconductor Business group focuses on the design, development and licensing of semiconductor technology and New Business group focuses on the design, development and licensing of lighting and display technologies, mobile, data security and other technologies. Its system level products that utilize its patented inventions and solutions include personal computers, servers, printers, video projectors, game consoles, HDTVs, set-top boxes and mobile phones. Rambus operates in United States, India, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. The company was founded in March 1990 by Mark A. Horowitz and P. Michael Farmwald and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.