As a well-known silicon chip IP provider, Rambus has just announced the acquisition of hardnet, the industry's leading electronic design company, in order to make data transmission faster and safer Rambus pointed out that this acquisition has strengthened the company's world-class engineer team and is committed to promoting the development of next-generation data center CXL processing solutions.
It is reported that hardnet has 20 years of Semiconductor R & D experience, and its first-class silicon design, verification, compression and error correction code expertise can provide key technical support for Rambus CXL memory interconnection scheme.
Luc SERAPHIN, President and CEO of Rambus, said: "thanks to the strong demand for advanced workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) and the transformation to hierarchical data center architecture, the industry momentum based on CXL solutions is very strong".
With the addition of the highly skilled hardnet design team, the company has ushered in new key resources. It will not only help Rambus accelerate the implementation of roadmap planning, but also help and expand the coverage of its products and services to meet the needs of customers for next-generation data center solutions.
Simon Robin, founder and President of hardnet, added: Rambus's cultural accumulation and leading technology are very compatible with them. The team is looking forward to joining them and is happy to be a member of a global enterprise promoting the future development of data center solutions.
In addition, hardnet brings complementarity to Rambus chip IP and service portfolio, which can expand its customer base and seize the highland in application fields such as automobile and consumer electronics. If all goes well, the transaction is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2022 and is not expected to have much impact on its performance.