Rambus Sues Samsung Over DRAM Patents

Rambus has sued one of its largest proponents, Samsung Electronics, for several counts of patent infringement. The contents of the suits echo those Rambus filed in the late 1990s: in one suit, Rambus named Samsung as allegedly infringing on 11 patents involving SDRAM and DDR memory.

A separate suit alleged that Samsung had also infringed on 14 patents Rambus held in GDDR2 and GDDR3 memory, specifically used in graphics, as well as the more generic DDR-2 memory type. Both suits were filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

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