RAMBUS INC — Director's Dealing 2011

Aug 6, 2011

SEC Form 3 — Initial Statement of Beneficial Ownership

Issuer: RAMBUS INC (RMBS)
CIK: 0000917273
Period of Report: 2011-07-28

Reporting Person: Pickett Christopher M (Sr. VP, Licensing)

Holdings (Non-Derivative)

Security	Shares	Ownership
Common Stock	20986	Direct

Holdings (Derivative)

Security	Exercise Price	Expiration	Underlying	Shares	Ownership
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)	$23.23	2020-01-04	Common Stock (140000)		Direct
Employee Stock Option (right to buy)	$20.93	2021-02-01	Common Stock (20000)		Direct

Footnotes

F1: Includes 18,706 shares represented by performance restricted stock units which vest on February 1, 2012.

F2: Twenty percent of the shares subject to the option vested on January 4, 2011 and one forty-eighth of the shares shall vest monthly thereafter.

F3: Ten percent of the shares subject to the option vested on August 1, 2011 and one fifty-fourth of the shares shall vest monthly thereafter.