Monday saw Rambus, a developer of high-speed interfaces and memory technologies, announcing its Mobile Memory Initiative. With this initiative, the company aims at achieving data rates of 4.3GHz at best-in-class power efficiency.

Martin Scott, senior vice president of research and technology development at Rambus reported, "As consumer expectations grow for more media-rich applications on their mobile devices, new memory solutions will be needed to keep pace with the rapidly increasing bandwidth requirements."

A 32-bit memory device at 4.30GHz clock-speed can offer 17.2GB/sec peak bandwidth. As Rambus wants to make such devices tremendously effective in terms of power consumption, the memory technology may find itself inside powerful mobile multimedia-oriented devices, such as portable video game consoles, smartphones and so on.

The high-bandwidth expertise has been combined by Rambus with power-efficient signaling technology with the aim to develop vital innovations for its Mobile Memory Initiative, such as:

Rambus' Mobile Memory Initiative, that is build on innovations pioneered through the development of the award-winning XDR memory architecture, and through the Low-Power and Terabyte Bandwidth Initiatives, also integrates important innovations such as FlexPhase and Microthreading technology.

A silicon test vehicle for its Mobile Memory Initiative at DesignCon 2009 would be demonstrated by Rambus.