RAMBUS AND NVIDIA SIGN PATENT LICENCE AGREEMENT

Agreement covers memory controllers for certain DRAM

SINGAPORE – August 16, 2010 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, and NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual computing, today announced they have signed a patent licence agreement related to certain memory controllers.

Under the agreement, Rambus has granted NVIDIA a patent licence for certain memory controllers at a one percent royalty rate for SDR memory controllers and a two percent royalty rate for other memory controllers, including DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR, LPDDR2, GDDR2, GDDR3, GDDR4, and portions of GDDR5 memory controllers. NVIDIA has granted no licences to Rambus.

The signed patent licence agreement went into effect on August 12, 2010. The parties have not signed any releases of liability, nor dismissed any outstanding litigation between them.

The terms of the licence are per the agreement that Rambus offers as part of its commitment with the European Commission. A sample of the Memory Controller License Agreement is available at www.rambus.com/licensing.