Rambus wins $306 million from Hynix

[jayfish]

Rambus wins $306 million from Hynix

A jury found that Hynix had infringed 10 of Rambus' patents in a verdict announced on Monday in U.S. district court in San Jose, Calif. The award covers compensation for Hynix sales in the United States between June 2000 and the end of 2005, according to a Rambus statement. Hynix may also have to pay interest on the amount awarded in the verdict.

Rambus had alleged that Hynix and other large memory manufacturers infringed its patents in producing DDR DRAM--the most common type of memory in PCs today--as well as in making SDRAM and DDR2 DRAM. The vast majority of PCs and servers produced in the past several years use one of these types of memory, and variants of DDR are expected to be incorporated into PCs for the next several years.

Ughh.... Rambus. If the past tactics of Rambus (in cahoots with Intel) are any indication of future behavior, this will not bode well for PC hardware consumers.



Jay

[BlueEyedSon]

1. does anyone actually use those overpriced rambus memory SIMMs anymore?

[jayfish]

2. If Rambus Has It's Way...

and they just might with the clout this decision gives them, everyone might be real soon.

Jay