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Infineon fights on with Rambus countersuit
News Rambus' loss of its patent case against Infineon is just the beginning of the legal battle over computer memory, with PC prices in the balance Although a judge dismissed Rambus' case against Infineon on Friday, the German memory manufacturer...
[May 8, 2001, 9:13]
Infineon turns to flash
News Infineon Technologies entered the flash-memory market on Wednesday, and set its sights on becoming one of the top three producers in its segment of the market during the next three years. Best known as a manufacturer of dynamic RAM for computers...
[January 7, 2004, 15:45]
News Burst: Infineon to fight Rambus on chip patents
News Infineon has said it will fight a patent infringement lawsuit filed last week against the chip manufacturer by Rambus, a US-based chip designer. According to reports, Infineon, formerly Siemens Semiconductors, is still in negotiations with Rambus...
[August 15, 2000, 13:42]
Infineon awards Accenture $48m outsourcing deal
News In a sign the outsourcing market remains healthy, German semiconductor company Infineon Technologies is tapping Accenture to handle SAP software support duties. Infineon said on Friday the seven-year contract for managing its SAP business software...
[July 21, 2003, 9:15]
Infineon admits to DRAM price fixing
News Infineon Technologies will plead guilty to taking part in an international DRAM price-fixing conspiracy, which affected such companies as Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Apple, the US Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
[September 16, 2004, 9:20]
Infineon busted? Play it again, DRAM
Leader The news that Infineon has been fined $160m (£88m) for conspiring with "unnamed DRAM manufacturers" to fix the price of memory chips is notable for the size of the US Department of Justice's Antitrust Division's winnings -- the third biggest...
[September 16, 2004, 12:20]
Infineon weaves deals for wearable computing
News Chipmaker Infineon says it has seen "huge" interest from the textile industry in its wearable computing technology, paving the way for everything from identification chips to MP3 players that can be built into ordinary fabrics.
[July 24, 2002, 15:52]
Infineon gets musical with MP3 jacket
News Chipmaker Infineon Technologies is weaving its products into an entirely new fashion industry: high-tech textiles. Infineon's Emerging Technologies Group has developed chips, sensors and packages that allow the processors to be woven into fabrics.
[April 27, 2002, 7:31]
Infineon boosts memory chip output
News Infineon Technologies, eyeing a recovery in the memory chip market, is increasing its production capacity through a pair of manufacturing agreements. The deal also girds Infineon for the potential impact of the long-expected agreement between...
[March 11, 2002, 15:48]
Infineon chief quits, but doesn't say why
News Ulrich Schumacher, the chief executive of German chipmaker Infineon Technologies, resigned unexpectedly Thursday, amid ongoing investigations by US and European regulators into price-fixing in the memory market.
[March 26, 2004, 7:20]
CeBIT: Siemens semiconductors to be floated as 'Infineon'
News According to Siemens, Infineon's 25000 employees places it in 10th position among the largest worldwide semiconductor manufacturers by size. In the last financial year the division had a 1.2 billion Mark deficit despite a 6.7 billion Mark turnover.
[March 18, 1999, 14:25]
IBM and Infineon to shake up memory market?
News IBM and Infineon Technologies are working together to develop a radical new memory chip that could hypothetically replace the many types of memory chips in use today. IBM and Infineon will work to take the technology from the research lab into high...
[December 7, 2000, 8:53]
News Burst: Rambus sues Infineon over memory
News Rambus, which owns the intellectual property behind several key PC components, has sued Munich-based Infineon over the rights to a widespread memory technology. Infineon is considering its own suit against Rambus to protect its memory patent rights...
[August 14, 2000, 10:27]
Infineon and IBM in Ovonic collaboration
News Extending a longstanding technology alliance, Infineon and IBM have launched a programme to research phase-change memory, material that retains data by changing its structure. Infineon and IBM also collaborate on spintronics, a type of memory chip...
[May 24, 2005, 15:45]
IBM, Infineon show off next-gen memory progress
News IBM and Infineon will jointly present a paper this week that demonstrates how Magnetic Random Access Memory, one of the leading candidates to replace flash memory in mobile phones, could be ready for commercial production by 2005.
[June 10, 2003, 7:38]
Rambus hit by class-action suit
News Following a complex ruling in the legal battle between chip companies Rambus and Infineon, a group of Rambus investors has filed a class-action lawsuit against the company, alleging violations of federal securities laws.
[August 13, 2001, 17:26]
Most Rambus claims thrown out of court
News All but three of Rambus' patent claims against Germany's Infineon were dismissed by a US federal judge in Richmond, Virginia late on Monday. Judge Robert Payne of the US District Court in Richmond, Virginia said Rambus' case had failed to prove...
[May 1, 2001, 11:40]
Billions at stake in chip trial
News The trial between Rambus and Infineon Technologies that gets underway this week could, if it goes in favour of Rambus, reap £1bn in licence fees for the company, but more importantly to buyers, drive up prices of standard PC memory -- already one...
[April 26, 2001, 9:27]
Smart jacket handles mobile calls and MP3s
News Semiconductor maker Infineon continued its adventures in wearable computing on Monday by showing off a men's jacket that includes a built-in MP3 player and can link up with a mobile phone over Bluetooth.
[July 26, 2004, 14:20]
Chipmakers join forces on nano research
News Chipmakers AMD and Infineon Technologies, together with Taiwan's UMC, are collaborating to create faster, cooler and more power-saving processors expected to be at the heart of the next generation of computers.
[July 30, 2002, 13:14]
