Read More/Source: Rambus Press Release
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Rambus Developer Forum, Tokyo, Japan - 11/30/2006 Consumer devices are setting the pace for innovation in digital electronics. Rising consumer demands for richer graphics, stunning visuals and real-world physics require technology at the leading-edge. At Rambus (NASDAQ: RMBS), this type of innovation is a core competence, and today Rambus is proud to announce that its XDR™ memory and FlexIO™ processor bus interface technologies are featured in the PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system.
"The Rambus XDR memory and FlexIO interfaces are integral to enhancing the overall system performance for PS3," said Izumi Kawanishi, corporate executive of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. "Rambus engineers and project managers have given us confidence throughout the development program and enabled us to deliver the most advanced computer entertainment system in the world."
Designed from the ground up for breakthrough performance, the PS3 computer entertainment system employs four XDR DRAM devices, providing 256MB of memory capacity. The Rambus XDR memory interface and FlexIO processor bus account for 90% of the Cell Broadband Engine™ signal pins, enabling an unprecedented aggregate bandwidth of over 65 gigabytes-per-second in PS3.
