A judge's decision last week dismissing a Federal Trade Commission antitrust case against Rambus, a designer of computer memory chips, is proving to be bad news for memory chip makers on two fronts.
RAMBUS INC., Los Altos, Calif., a designer of computer memory chips, agreed to buy patents and licenses of Velio Communications Inc., Milpitas, Calif., a maker of computer chips, for as much as $13 million.
Equally, the gurus sold out of their position in Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Calif.-based Catalyst Semiconductorof semiconductor memory products.
Rambus, a designer of high-speed memory chips, may not use 12 of its patents to demand royalties from Micron Technology, a federal judge ruled.
Rambus Inc., a designer of highspeed computer memory chips, can pursue a patent infringement suit against Infineon Technologies after the United States Supreme Court refused to intervene in the dispute.
Shares of Rambus, a designer of high-speed memory chips, rose as much as 21percentt yesterday after a federal judge issued a ruling defining terms in a patent dispute with Hynix Semiconductor.
Shares of Rambus, a designer of high-speed memory chips, rose as much as 6.1percentt yesterday after a federal judge said the company could pursue patent-infringement claims against Hynix Semiconductor.
A designer of high-speed memory chips, Rambus Inc., won a ruling yesterday by a Federal Trade Commission judge that might help it reap as much as $3 billion a year from semiconductor makers.
Rambus, a designer of high-speed computer memory chips, said yesterday that a Delaware court had dismissed a suit against the company.
Shares of Rambus, a designer of high-speed computer memory chips, fell 10percentt yesterday after a federal judge threw out a patent-infringement case against the German chip maker Infineon Technologies.
