CUPERTINO, Calif. – Verigy (NASDAQ: VRGY), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), the leader in high-speed memory architectures, has selected the Verigy V93000 HSM Series for advanced testing of its XDR memory architecture, the fastest production memory technology on the market today. Proven in high-volume and cost-competitive applications, XDR enables the vivid true-to-life gaming experience demanded by serious gamers and delivers state-of-the-art image processing performance for the next generation of HDTVs.

The Verigy V93000 HSM Series is the fastest memory tester available with at-speed I/O, at-speed memory core test performance and best-in-class software tools that enable Rambus to characterize the performance of these unique memory devices. The V93000 HX high-speed extension card extends the performance range of the scalable V93000 HSM Series to 12.8 Gbps, delivering the ultra-high speed required for XDR and future generations of Rambus leadership memories.

The XDR interface represents the next step in high-bandwidth interfaces for gaming, multi-core computing, and other consumer electronics applications, supplying up to five times more usable bandwidth to memory controllers than today's best competing memory technologies. The XDR product family provides the capability to scale data rates beyond 8.0 GHz and will provide chip and system designers with the features they need to achieve the highest performance using the fewest number of controller pins and DRAM devices. The ultra-high speed and accuracy of the V93000 HSM Series tester is available today and enables testing of these devices.

“Verigy offers the best ultra-high-speed memory tester on the market,” said Andy Chan, Vice President of Engineering at Rambus. “Further, the collaboration of Rambus’ and Verigy’s world-class applications engineers has helped us speed our products to market with performance our computing and consumer electronics customers can count on.”

“Rambus and Verigy have learned from each other, and our strategic teamwork together over the years has made the V93000 an even better platform for testing ultra-high speed devices,” said Pascal Ronde, Vice President of Sales, Service and Support, Verigy. “Because of that close work, Verigy set the standard for testing the first XDR DRAMs several years ago, and we’re proud to say that together we’re setting the new standard for coming generations of XDR products.”

About the Verigy V93000

The Verigy V93000 provides a scalable platform architecture for testing SoCs, systems-in-package (SIPs) and high-speed memory devices. The V93000 HSM Series is installed at memory manufacturers, design houses and validation labs worldwide. The scalability and flexibility of the V93000 HSM platform allows it to fulfill the industry’s most demanding performance and cost challenges for engineering and design characterization as well as for high-volume production of high-speed memory devices, which are used in tomorrow’s memory-hungry computer and consumer electronics applications. With its tester-per-pin architecture that enables higher speeds, precision accuracy and improved yields, the V93000 HSM Series addresses the unique requirements of high-speed memory test, making it the best-in-class solution for this emerging class of high-speed memory.