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Hynix Fined $185m For DRAM Price Fixing
News The US Department of Justice announced Thursday that Hynix Semiconductor has agreed to plead guilty to criminal antitrust violations over DRAM price fixing and pay a $185m (£96.7m) fine. Hynix is the latest DRAM maker to reach a settlement with the...
[April 22, 2005, 9:45]
Hynix Edges Up Memory Makers' Rankings
News Hynix Semiconductor passed Micron Technologies to take over the No.spot in the market for dynamic random access memory during the second quarter, Gartner Dataquest reported on Thursday. To wrest the second position from Micron, Hynix improved its...
[July 30, 2004, 14:55]
Hynix Execs To Be Jailed Over Price Fixing
News Four executives with Hynix Semiconductor in South Korea have agreed to plead guilty to price fixing and serve five to eight months in jail. Samsung, Hynix, Elpida and Infineon have all agreed, as corporations, to plead guilty and agreed to pay more...
[March 2, 2006, 8:25]
Hynix Sees Semiconductor Profits Plummet
News South Korean chip manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor on Thursday blamed a 31 percent drop in profits on a strong Korean won and a decline in average chip prices. Hynix recorded an operating profit of 360 billion won (£210m) in the first quarter of...
[April 20, 2006, 13:35]
Rambus Seeks Injunction Against Hynix
News Memory-chip technology designer Rambus will seek an injunction to compel Hynix Semiconductor to stop making memory chips that use some of Rambus' technology, according to lawyers. The long-running lawsuit pits Rambus against memory-chip makers...
[March 28, 2008, 12:25]
Judge Dismisses Rambus Charges Against Hynix
News A US judge last week dismissed most of Rambus' patent claims against Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, one of the biggest memory manufacturers. Federal Judge Ronald Whyte of United States District Court for the Northern District of California found that...
[November 26, 2001, 17:26]
Rambus Wins $300m From Hynix In Patent Case
News Rambus has beaten Hynix Semiconductor in its patent infringement case, with a court ordering its rival to pay $306.5m (£172m) in damages. A jury found that Hynix had infringed 10 of Rambus' patents in a verdict announced on Monday in US district...
[April 25, 2006, 12:20]
Rambus Wins $300m From Hynix In Patent Case
Talkback Mr. Kanellos needs to be more factual and less opinionated. RAMBUS is not a very ethical company as has been stated in a court of law, as well as modifying some of their existing patents with Industry Standards after they agreed not to in hopes...
[April 28, 2006, 15:30]
Samsung Drive May Halt DRAM Market Recovery
News Hynix Semiconductor, the world's number-two maker of memory chips, said on Monday that it raised contract prices for computer memory chips by about 15 percent in April and expected further increases in May.
[May 6, 2008, 9:54]
Rambus Back In Court
News The Los Altos, California-based chip designer announced on Tuesday that it had filed suit against Hynix Semiconductor, Taiwan's Nanya Technology and Infineon Technologies, as well as the latter two companies' joint venture, Inotera Memories, for...
[January 26, 2005, 11:20]
Memory Standards Wage War Of Words
News Hynix Semiconductor and Infineon were among the companies promoting Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM, a relatively inexpensive open standard arrived at by the semiconductor industry body, JEDEC. Hynix, formerly Hyundai Electronics Industries, said it...
[June 11, 2001, 11:18]
Rambus Launches More Antitrust Action
News The suit, which also names Hynix Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies, alleges that the four companies together stifled competition in the computer memory chip market. Rambus has a history of legal entanglements with its current defendants...
[May 6, 2004, 10:00]
Rambus Slapped With FTC Antitrust Suit
News The Micron and Hynix suits have been stayed pending the outcome of the Infineon appeal. Rambus also is engaged in lawsuits with Infineon, Micron Technology and Hynix over the same issue. Three companies -- Micron, Hynix and Infineon -- decided to...
[June 20, 2002, 9:40]
Infineon Boosts Memory Chip Output
News The deal also girds Infineon for the potential impact of the long-expected agreement between Micron and Hynix. The two DRAM makers have been in discussions for months for Micron to buy Hynix's DRAM operation.
[March 11, 2002, 15:48]
Rambus Settles SDRAM Patent Dispute
News Rambus sued Infineon, along with Micron Technology, Hyundai Electronics Industries (now Hynix Semiconductor) and others, over allegations they infringed on Rambus patents by manufacturing SDRAM, the most common memory chip used today in computers...
[March 22, 2005, 8:35]
Most Rambus Claims Thrown Out Of Court
News Rambus has received SDRAM licensing agreements from seven memory makers, and has lawsuits pending against Micron and Hynix (formerly Hyundai Electronics). Micron and Hynix have in turn sued Rambus. All but three of Rambus' patent claims against...
[May 1, 2001, 11:40]
IPod Sparks Record Boom In Chip Sales
News Hynix Semiconductor moved into the top 10 for the first time in 2005 thanks to the NAND flash segment. Hynix's revenue is likely to reach $1.5bn, up from $212m in 2004, an increase of more than 600 percent, Gartner said.
[December 9, 2005, 16:25]
Memory Market Edges Up
News Hynix Semiconductor ranked fourth with $510m or 14 percent of the market, Gartner said. Despite the duties, Hynix did relatively well during the third quarter, Norwood said. If Micron or Infineon was thinking these tariffs would cut Hynix out of...
[August 15, 2003, 16:50]
Memory Makers Ride Out Downturn
News Korean memory makers Samsung and Hynix, No.and No.respectively, in the memory market, are likely to retain those positions, thanks to huge market share. But analysts believe it's unlikely any of the larger players, including Samsung, Micron...
[August 8, 2001, 9:09]
Rambus Claims Victory In Memory-chip Patent Case
News The US jury rejected claims by three large memory-chip makers, Hynix Semiconductor, Micron Technology and Nanya Technology, that Rambus deliberately misled the memory-chip industry in the 1990s when new standards were being hammered out.
[March 27, 2008, 11:30]
