Chip design firm Rambus announced its operating income tripled to $4.9 million
in the first quarter. But expenses related to employee stock options resulted
in a $166 million net loss.
Rambus has licensed its patented memory chip technology to most of the
world’s leading DRAM manufacturers, enabling them to increase the speed with
which data is exchanged between the microprocessor and memory chips by as much
as a factor 10. Rambus also said its sales grew from $9.9 million a year ago
to $15.7 million.