Tag archive: Rambus

A San Francisco County Superior Court jury has ruled against former memory maker Rambus in its long-running antitrust case against memory makers Micron and Hynix, finding that neither Micron or Hynix conspired to fix the price of memory chips, or conspired with other manufacturers like Intel and Samsung to keep Rambus from gaining traction in the market. The jury's vote was nine to three after more than eight weeks of deliberation, and… Read More

Just as the patent infringement case between them was set to go to trial, South Korean electronics giant Samsung has reached a settlement with Rambus that will have the company shelling out some $900 million. Samsung will pay Rambus $200 million immediately, purchase $200 million in Rambus stock, and pay Rambus about $25 million per quarter for the next five years. In return, Samsung gets a perpetual fully paid license to Rambus's dynamic… 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

In a closely watched intellectual property case, U.S. District Judge Sue L. Robinson has ruled that Rambus employees had destroyed email and other documents related to the company's patents, litigation, and marketing strategies between 1998 and 1999, and, as such, a dozen DRAM-related patents held by Rambus cannot be enforced against memory maker Micron. The two companies have patent-infringement lawsuits filed against each other in… Read More

Memory technology developer Rambus has been a source of controversy in the computing industry for several years. The company filed for a patent on high-speed memory technology way back in 1990, and then worked to have that technology widely adopted by the industry—and it was. But along the way came accusations that the company was using its membership in the Joint Electron Device Engineering Council to effectively establish a monopoly… Read More

In the suit, Rambus charges that Samsung's DDR2 memory devices and GDDR2 and GDDR3 graphics memory devices use its patented inventions. In a separate suit filed today, Rambus named Samsung as adefendant in claims alleging infringement of Rambus patents by Samsung SDRAM and DDR DRAM memory types as a well as controllers that work with those memory types. “While we have regarded Samsung as a valuable licensee of our patents for… Read More

From the company's press release: Rambus' DPP technology is a unique innovation applicable to upgrades for memory modules using point-to-point signaling, allowing users to maximize capacity in their memory systems without compromising performance. This demonstration, being held in Booth 104 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, displays a high-speed memory controller conducting bi-directional transactions to an XDIMM… Read More

From the Company's press release: Rambus Inc. today announced the availability of a broad family of double data rate (DDR) memory controller interface cells and services. Providing support for mainstream DDR1 and DDR2 up to 800MHz data rates and graphics DDR, including GDDR1, GDDR2, and GDDR3 up to 1600MHz data rates, Rambus DDR memory controller interface cells are full-featured drop-in physical layer (PHY) cells. The interface… Read More

From Rambus' press release: Rambus Inc. today announced that it has filed an anti-trust suit in the Superior Court of the State of California. In the suit, Rambus charges that defendants Hynix Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies, Micron Technology and Siemens AG engaged in a concerted and unlawful effort to eliminate competition and stifle innovation in the market for computer memory technology and computer memory chips.… Read More

Rambus today announced that the suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against the company has been dismissed in its entirety in a ruling issued today by Judge Stephen J. McGuire, the FTC's chief administrative law judge presiding over the case. A 330-page initial decision explaining the ruling is expected to be issued to the public on Monday, February 23, 2004. Today's ruling came after a three-month… Read More