"Direct Rambus™ interface technology provides AMD with a high-performance, mainstream, low-risk solution that adds value across AMD's processor product line," said S. Atiq Raza, AMD executive vice president and chief technical officer. "In addition, this technology offers scalable configurations from low-end consumer products to high-end enterprise computing systems and economies of scale due to worldwide supply and broad industry support."

Direct Rambus™ technology will enable the DRAM industry's highest level of performance to date -- 1.6 gigabytes per second of peak bandwidth from a single device -- and will span multiple generations of DRAM devices (through 1-gigabit densities). Planned applications include computer system memory, multimedia and graphics memory, communications system memory, and consumer electronics memory.