Rambus company , which chose the principle of existence as patent troll, fell on hard times. In 2011, the non-volatile memory technology developer failed to bring to justice Micron and Hynix, the company has not received nearly $ 4 billion of royalty. Rambus also suffered a setback in litigation with other manufacturers of integrated circuits.
In order to optimize costs Rambus dismiss 15% of staff (75 people). Reduction will affect employees engaged in administrative activities. The remaining employees will be focused on work in three areas: memory and interfaces, displays and lighting, cryptographic technology. By the way, Rambus acquired for $ 342.5 million the company Cryptography Research.
Rambus reduction will save up to $ 35 million per year. The procedure will be conducted in the next few weeks.