Tag archive: Hynix

The European Union has issued fines against nine memory manufacturers—including Samsung, the world's largest—for conspiring to fix prices in the DRAM market. All cole, the fines add up to €331 million (about $410 million USD), with €145.73 million of that fine landing squarely on Samsung. However, memory maker MIcron is getting off scott free…because it's the company that blue the whistle on the price… Read More

The world's top producers of computer memory chips are embroiled in an apparent case of industrial espionage after South Korean prosecutors indicted 18 people over alleged technology theft. Prosecutors said Thursday those involved — including employees of U.S. company Allied Materials and its South Korean unit — are suspected of leaking semiconductor technology belonging to South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. to its domestic rival… Read More

Anyone following the technology industry doesn't need to be told that patent litigation is often a long-running, byzantine affair that only gets more confusing the more it's examined. Case in point: memory developer Rambus has just been awarded supplemental damages in its patent infringement case against Hynix. Although Rambus's request for injunctive relief was denied by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District… Read More

Another day, another patent war starts to brew. South Korea's technology giant Samsung has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission alleging that Japan's Sharp is selling LCD flat panel displays and other items (like notebook computers, mobile phones, and monitors) that infringe on four Samsung patents. Samsung wants the ITC to bar sales of the Sharp products in the U.S. market. The move marks an… Read More

“In a plea agreement filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, “Hynix acknowledged conspiring with other companies to fix prices of widely used computer memory products between April 1999 and June 2002,” according to the report. The plea had been expected. As reported in March, Hynix (Seoul) set aside 347 billion won ($338.7 million) in provisions related to the ongoing price-fixing investigation in the DRAM… Read More