NEWS FOR RELEASE: 8/22/01 - 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time

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          719-481-7213
          lbrown@ramtron.com


                  RAMTRON AND TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ENTER INTO
                  FRAM LICENSING AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO-August 22, 2001 - U.S. semiconductor maker Ramtron
International Corporation (Nasdaq:RMTR) today announced that it has
entered into a multi-million dollar FRAM memory licensing and
development agreement with Texas Instruments. Under the terms of the
agreement Ramtron will provide a license to Ramtron's ferroelectric
random access memory technology as well as technical development
services in exchange for certain fees relating to the license and
development services.

About Ramtron

Ramtron International Corporation, headquartered in Colorado Springs,
Colorado, is the leader in the design, development and sale of
ferroelectric RAM or FRAM memory products.  The Company also develops
and markets high-performance memory products through its subsidiaries,
Enhanced Memory Systems, Inc. and Mushkin Enhanced Memory.

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