Stories about: Micron Technologies

Rambus owns the patents on memory interfaces used in most mobile phones on the market, and most of those phones violate the company's patents, according to Chief Executive Officer Harold Hughes.

A Delaware judge has lifted a stay in an ongoing lawsuit between Rambus and Micron Technologies, allowing Rambus to file new claims and to proceed in its patent infringement suit against the Boise, Idaho, memory chip maker.

A drop in Eastman Kodak Co. (EK) took the Dow down today, and it seems the Nasdaq decided to go along for the ride. Both indexes fell about 1.5 percent, unable to reverse recent losses.

BOSTON (08/30/2000) - Signalling that it, too, plans to contest patent claims by Rambus Inc., South Korea's Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. Ltd. said Wednesday it has filed a suit against the developer of high-speed memory interface technology.

My friends, there's trouble in Silicon City, and that trouble is spelled C-H-I-P-S. For the past five years, corporate technology purchases have been based on three simple assumptions - computer capabilities will increase according to Moore's Law (power doubles every 24 months), prices will remain stable or fall slightly, and there will always be enough computers when we want them.