June 21 morning news, the U.S. memory chip maker Rambus a court in California on Monday to file an antitrust lawsuit alleging that Hynix and Micron exist “illegal conspiracy”, intending to Rambus out of computer memory chip market.
Hynix and Micron Rambus alleged infringement of intellectual property RDRAM chips,AT91SAM7A1 price, claims $ 12.9 billion. The company said that in accordance with California law, Rambus’s $ 4.3 billion in compensation is automatically increased 2-fold, to 129 billion U.S. dollars. Two defendants denied the allegations.
Rambus attorney Bart Williams (Bart Williams), said the court, Hynix and Micron suspected of involvement in “illegal conspiracy to kill a revolutionary technology, and reap billions of dollars in interest, to maintain a strong market position.” He believes that “this plot has been effective,” leading to RDRAM “Instead of victory, the next generation industry standard, but only accounted for a smaller market share.”
Accordance with the process, Hynix and Micron will be contested tomorrow.
Rambus accused Hynix and Micron chips with driving up the price of RDRAM and DDR SDRAM and drive down their chip prices to weaken the competitiveness of Rambus.
Micron General Counsel Rod Lewis (Rod Lewis) said, Rambus “in the market is still trying to force his party to blame the failure on.” In his view, RDRAM chip failed the reason is because of technical defects, less efficient, production and deployment costs are higher. “RDRAM chip turned out to be only suitable for niche markets, not suitable for PC, notebook and tablet PCs and other mass market.” He said.
Hynix could not be reached for comment.