Rambus Inc, Mountain View, California designer of the high-speed memory chip interface that is claimed to increase access times 10-fold (CI No 1,883) has won a big leg-up to prosperity with the announcement that Nintendo Co is to use the Rambus licensed by NEC Corp and Toshiba Corp which make memory chips that implement it – in its planned Ultra 64 64-bit games system. Nintendo told Reuter that the Rambus technology will bring three-dimensional graphics capabilities to the Ultra 64. Prevously known as Project Reality, the system is being developed jointly by Nintendo and Silicon Graphics Inc. The Rambus technology replaces the control signals and multiplexed bus of the standard dynamic memory interface with a packet-oriented bus.
