Rambus to acquire Memory Interconnect Business from Inphi

The combined business further strengthens Rambus’ market position for memory buffer chip products and amplifies execution for future non-volatile memory programs to meet the needs of the server, networking and data centre market.

“We are constantly evaluating ways to build upon our solid foundation and grow our businesses in order to better meet the needs of today’s market dynamics,” said Dr. Ron Black, President and Chief Executive Officer at Rambus. “By combining our buffer chip team with the Memory Interconnect Business of Inphi, we are able to instantly gain a strong market position and be well situated for growth on future designs. This acquisition brings existing product revenue, proven technology, and faster time-to-market with a best-in-class memory technologies portfolio.”

Inphi is a provider of high-speed analogue and mixed-signal semiconductor solutions, having created solutions that accelerate the movement of data across of wide variety of applications in the server, data centre and computing markets. The combination of Inphi products and Rambus server DIMM chipset offerings will provide fast, efficient solutions and expand the Rambus product offerings.

This acquisition remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close during the third quarter of 2016. These acquired technologies will be part of the Rambus Memory and Interfaces Division.