Rambus

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Rambus is a semiconductor company that designs, develops, and licenses interface and security IP, and memory interface chips. Its memory, SerDes, and embedded security solutions help system on chip (SoC) and system designers speed performance, expand capacity, and improve security. The company primarily serves the cloud, artificial intelligence, data center, 5G, automotive, and Internet of Things markets.

TypePublic
Founded1990
HQSan Jose, CA, USMap
Websiterambus.com
Employee Ratings3.8More
Overall CultureA+More
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Employees (est.) (Dec 2020)623(-9%)
Job Openings49
Revenue (FY, 2020)$246.3 M(+10%)
Share Price (Jun 2021)$19.9(+2%)
Cybersecurity ratingBMore

Key People/Management at Rambus

Luc Seraphin

Luc Seraphin

President & CEO
Sean Fan

Sean Fan

SVP & COO
Charles Kissner

Charles Kissner

Chairman of the Board
Hari Kannan

Hari Kannan

SVP of Strategy
Rahul Mathur

Rahul Mathur

SVP & Chief Financial Officer
Jeffry Moore

Jeffry Moore

SVP, Global Operations
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Rambus Office Locations

Rambus has offices in San Jose, Agoura Hills, Beaverton, Chapel Hill and in 10 other locations
San Jose, CA, US (HQ)
4453 N 1st St #100
Agoura Hills, CA, US
30301 Agoura Rd #120
Beaverton, OR, US
1100 NW Compton Dr Ste 100
Chapel Hill, NC, US
1512 E Franklin St #200
Toronto, CA
70 University Ave #1100
Shanghai, CN
Suite 1503 L’Avenue Building No.99 Xianxia Road
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Rambus Financials and Metrics

Rambus Revenue

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Rambus's revenue was reported to be $246.32 m in FY, 2020
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Revenue (Q1, 2021)

70.4m

Gross profit (Q1, 2021)

53.0m

Gross profit margin (Q1, 2021), %

75.3%

Net income (Q1, 2021)

(2.6m)

EBIT (Q1, 2021)

(3.5m)

Market capitalization (11-Jun-2021)

2.2b

Closing stock price (11-Jun-2021)

19.9

Cash (31-Mar-2021)

109.6m

EV

2.3b
Rambus's current market capitalization is $2.2 b.
Annual
USDFY, 2010FY, 2011FY, 2012FY, 2013FY, 2014FY, 2015FY, 2016FY, 2017FY, 2018FY, 2019FY, 2020

Revenue

323.4m312.4m234.1m271.5m296.6m296.3m336.6m393.1m231.2m224.0m246.3m

Revenue growth, %

9%0%14%

Cost of goods sold

6.9m24.1m28.4m33.2m41.9m45.3m67.1m55.4m18.3m27.2m60.7m

Gross profit

316.5m288.3m205.7m238.3m254.6m250.9m269.5m337.7m212.9m196.9m185.6m
Quarterly
USDQ2, 2010Q3, 2010Q1, 2011Q2, 2011Q3, 2011Q1, 2012Q2, 2012Q3, 2012Q1, 2013Q2, 2013Q3, 2013Q1, 2014Q2, 2014Q3, 2014Q1, 2015Q2, 2015Q3, 2015Q1, 2016Q2, 2016Q3, 2016Q1, 2017Q2, 2017Q3, 2017Q1, 2018Q2, 2018Q3, 2018Q1, 2019Q2, 2019Q3, 2019Q1, 2020Q2, 2020Q3, 2020Q1, 2021

Revenue

38.9m31.7m62.5m66.2m100.3m62.9m56.2m57.5m66.9m57.9m73.3m78.3m76.5m69.7m72.9m72.8m73.8m72.7m76.5m89.9m97.4m94.7m99.1m46.4m56.5m59.8m48.4m58.3m57.4m64.0m17.0m16.6m70.4m

Cost of goods sold

1.8m1.4m3.1m6.1m7.4m7.2m7.3m7.5m5.2m7.4m9.0m10.0m10.6m10.5m10.8m12.1m11.1m12.2m14.1m19.4m19.7m14.3m14.5m12.1m11.1m5.4m4.4m6.3m7.1m15.9m17.4m

Gross profit

37.1m30.4m59.4m60.2m92.8m55.7m48.9m50.0m61.6m50.6m64.3m68.3m65.9m59.2m62.2m60.7m62.7m60.5m62.4m70.4m77.6m80.4m84.7m34.3m45.4m54.4m44.0m52.0m50.3m48.1m53.0m

Gross profit Margin, %

95%96%95%91%93%89%87%87%92%87%88%87%86%85%85%83%85%83%82%78%80%85%85%74%80%91%91%89%88%75%75%
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Annual
USDFY, 2010FY, 2011FY, 2012FY, 2013FY, 2014FY, 2015FY, 2016FY, 2017FY, 2018FY, 2019FY, 2020

Cash

215.3m162.2m149.0m338.7m154.1m143.8m135.3m225.8m115.9m102.2m136.1m

Accounts Receivable

2.6m1.0m529.0k2.3m6.0m16.4m21.1m25.9m50.9m44.0m27.9m

Prepaid Expenses

10.9m8.1m10.5m8.3m8.5m11.5m11.3m15.7m18.5m15.9m

Inventories

5.6m5.2m6.8m10.1m14.5m
Quarterly
USDQ2, 2010Q3, 2010Q1, 2011Q2, 2011Q3, 2011Q1, 2012Q2, 2012Q3, 2012Q1, 2013Q2, 2013Q3, 2013Q1, 2014Q2, 2014Q3, 2014Q1, 2015Q2, 2015Q3, 2015Q1, 2016Q2, 2016Q3, 2016Q1, 2017Q2, 2017Q3, 2017Q1, 2018Q2, 2018Q3, 2018Q1, 2019Q2, 2019Q3, 2019Q1, 2020Q2, 2020Q3, 2020Q1, 2021

Cash

334.5m218.2m182.2m179.8m160.8m188.5m152.6m152.2m157.2m155.3m308.0m346.6m99.6m125.7m171.6m201.5m216.6m136.6m188.0m89.5m177.5m167.2m182.3m122.4m248.3m134.5m143.0m114.2m91.8m175.4m103.3m89.5m109.6m

Accounts Receivable

244.0k155.0k389.0k1.4m917.0k728.0k113.0k452.0k60.0k1.0m1.6m7.8m12.5m5.1m6.5m6.7m10.3m14.6m11.3m26.4m27.4m36.8m49.8m26.7m39.3m42.7m43.8m28.2m38.6m44.4m35.2m33.0m35.9m

Prepaid Expenses

10.4m12.1m11.0m10.4m10.1m7.0m7.3m9.8m9.0m8.7m6.0m8.8m7.3m8.0m10.1m9.7m10.9m13.0m13.0m22.2m12.7m12.3m11.0m16.8m14.5m14.4m16.9m9.4m9.8m17.1m18.0m16.2m11.6m

Inventories

5.8m5.3m5.0m5.6m6.0m6.3m8.2m9.3m9.9m9.8m11.6m14.2m9.9m
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Annual
USDFY, 2010FY, 2011FY, 2012FY, 2013FY, 2014FY, 2015FY, 2016FY, 2017FY, 2018FY, 2019FY, 2020

Net Income

150.9m(43.1m)(134.3m)(33.7m)26.2m211.4m6.8m(22.9m)(158.0m)(90.4m)(40.5m)

Depreciation and Amortization

10.1m11.9m13.2m44.4m40.2m37.5m50.1m55.2m40.1m18.4m

Inventories

1.7m473.0k(1.9m)(3.4m)(4.4m)

Accounts Payable

(3.8m)10.5m(9.7m)(1.5m)2.0m(2.6m)2.4m(651.0k)(2.3m)2.9m(2.2m)
Quarterly
USDQ2, 2010Q3, 2010Q1, 2011Q2, 2011Q3, 2011Q1, 2012Q2, 2012Q3, 2012Q1, 2013Q2, 2013Q3, 2013Q1, 2014Q2, 2014Q3, 2014Q1, 2015Q2, 2015Q3, 2015Q1, 2016Q2, 2016Q3, 2016Q1, 2017Q2, 2017Q3, 2017Q1, 2018Q2, 2018Q3, 2018Q1, 2019Q2, 2019Q3, 2019Q1, 2020Q2, 2020Q3, 2020Q1, 2021

Net Income

138.4m117.8m(4.2m)(14.8m)(14.3m)(27.9m)(60.1m)(118.2m)(10.4m)(18.2m)(24.0m)7.8m12.8m18.4m9.5m16.4m198.4m1.9m5.8m10.3m3.0m5.6m13.3m(35.7m)(51.0m)(155.9m)(26.6m)(63.6m)(80.9m)(8.0m)(18.8m)(31.5m)(2.6m)

Depreciation and Amortization

4.9m7.2m2.8m5.5m8.6m3.1m6.4m9.6m3.8m7.7m33.0m10.3m20.5m30.6m9.5m18.9m28.3m10.7m6.0m9.4m13.9m27.7m10.0m2.9m24.8m32.5m4.8m9.9m16.2m12.0m23.9m34.7m10.8m

Inventories

(208.0k)304.0k617.0k(595.0k)(1.0m)(1.3m)(1.4m)(2.6m)(3.1m)238.0k(1.5m)(4.1m)4.5m

Accounts Payable

(325.0k)(2.4m)4.1m6.2m12.6m(9.6m)(8.5m)(9.2m)(2.2m)(865.0k)(399.0k)749.0k756.0k425.0k(965.0k)(1.9m)(1.0m)266.0k2.2m2.3m(978.0k)(396.0k)(2.8m)(1.5m)(798.0k)153.0k2.2m1.1m4.8m416.0k1.7m1.1m297.0k
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USDQ2, 2010

Financial Leverage

1.7 x
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Rambus Operating Metrics

FY, 2014Q1, 2015Q2, 2015Q3, 2015FY, 2015Q1, 2016Q2, 2016Q3, 2016FY, 2016Q1, 2017

Patents Issued

1.78 k1.76 k1.77 k1.8 k1.83 k1.87 k1.88 k1.97 k1.99 k2.03 k

Patents Pending

710662674705681671634631646593
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Rambus Revenue Breakdown

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Rambus revenue breakdown by business segment: 71.3% from Memory and Interface Division, 22.6% from Rambus Security Division and 6.1% from Other

Rambus Cybersecurity Score

Cybersecurity ratingPremium dataset

B

82/100

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Rambus Environment, Social & Governance (ESG) Ratings

CSRHub ESG ratingPremium dataset

40-49

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Rambus Online and Social Media Presence

Rambus's Trends

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Rambus Company Culture

  • Overall Culture

    A+

    83/100

  • CEO Rating

    A+

    87/100

  • Compensation

    A+

    89/100

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Rambus News and Updates

February 24, 2021

Andes Technology and Rambus Collaborate to offer Secure Solution for MCU and IoT Applications

Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Feb. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Feb 24, 2021 - Andes Technology Corporation (TWSE: 6533), a leading supplier of high efficiency, low-power 32/64-bit RISC-V processor cores and Founding Premier member of RISC-V International, today announced a collaboration with Rambus Inc. …
February 01, 2021

: Rambus stock falls as sales miss Street expectations

Rambus Inc. RMBS shares fell in the extended session Monday after the chip maker’s results came in below Wall Street expectations. Rambus shares fell 7% after hours, following a 2.8% rise in the regular session to close at $19.52. The company reported a fiscal fourth-quarter loss of $12.1 million, o…
December 07, 2020

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October 22, 2019

Visa completes acquisition of Rambus payments portfolio

Visa announced that it has completed the acquisition of the token services and ticketing businesses,...
July 29, 2019

Rambus stock falls after quarter comes up short

Rambus Inc. shares dropped in the extended session Monday after the chip company's results fell short of Wall Street estimates. Rambus shares fell 9.2% after hours, following a 0.7% decline in the regular session to close at $12.89. The company reported a second-quarter loss of $37 million, or 33 c…
June 25, 2019

Visa buys Rambus tokenisation assets

Visa is beefing up its security credentials by buying the token services and ticketing business of c...
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Rambus Blogs

June 16, 2021

CXL Memory Interconnect Initiative: Enabling a New Era of Data Center Architecture

In response to an exponential growth in data, the industry is on the threshold of a groundbreaking architectural shift that will fundamentally change the performance, efficiency and cost of data centers around the globe. Server architecture, which has remained largely unchanged for decades, is takin…
June 16, 2021

PLDA and AnalogX Acquisitions Supercharge the Rambus CXL Memory Interconnect Initiative

Big changes are coming to the data center driven by an exponential rise in data volume and traffic. Disaggregation and composability would move us beyond the classic architecture of the server as the unit of computing. By separating the functional components of compute, memory, storage and networkin…
June 16, 2021

Rambus Advances New Era of Data Center Architecture with CXL™ Memory Interconnect Initiative

Launches research and development effort to drive architectural shift in data centers with solutions for memory expansion and pooling that enable disaggregated and composable server architectures Combines unique expertise in high-speed interfaces, embedded security and server memory buffers to devel…
June 16, 2021

Rambus to Acquire PLDA, Extending Leadership with Cutting-Edge CXL™ and PCI Express® Digital IP

Expands digital controller IP portfolio with complementary CXL 2.0, PCIe® 5.0 and PCIe 6.0 controller and switch IP Enables integrated interface subsystem solutions for data center, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), and High Performance Computing (HPC) Provides critical building …
June 03, 2021

New interface architectures enable data scaling

Suresh Andani, senior director of product marketing at Rambus, has written an article for Semiconductor Engineering that takes a closer look at why data center scaling requires new interface architectures. As Andani notes, global data traffic is growing at an exponential rate. More specifically, 5G …
May 24, 2021

Security Solutions for AI/ML

AI/ML is increasingly pervasive across all industries driven by a massive wave of digitization. Data, the raw material of AI/ML and Deep Learning algorithms, is available in enormous quantities from all aspects of business operations. AI/ML promises great gains in responsiveness and adaptability in …
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 Rambus Frequently Asked Questions

  • When was Rambus founded?

    Rambus was founded in 1990.

  • Who are Rambus key executives?

    Rambus's key executives are Luc Seraphin, Sean Fan and Charles Kissner.

  • How many employees does Rambus have?

    Rambus has 623 employees.

  • What is Rambus revenue?

    Latest Rambus annual revenue is $246.3 m.

  • What is Rambus revenue per employee?

    Latest Rambus revenue per employee is $395.4 k.

  • Who are Rambus competitors?

    Competitors of Rambus include Texas Instruments, Synopsys and Cadence.

  • Where is Rambus headquarters?

    Rambus headquarters is located at 4453 N 1st St #100, San Jose.

  • Where are Rambus offices?

    Rambus has offices in San Jose, Agoura Hills, Beaverton, Chapel Hill and in 10 other locations.

  • How many offices does Rambus have?

    Rambus has 14 offices.