Rambus has a long-running lawsuit over price-fixing by competitors, Micron and Hynix lost. Rambus had the antitrust case in 2004, brought and claimed that it is because of the price-fixing 4,38 billion dollars was lost.
According to Rambus applied for Micron and Hynix together to prevent the Rambus technology traction would get into pcs and the two companies prohibited price agreements have made for memory.
Rambus claimed that the more than four billion dollars was lost by the price-fixing. If Rambus in the equal would be made, would the total fine for the two manufacturers at least tripled. That would be a significant boost for Rambus, whose current market value is estimated to be approximately two billion dollars.
The jury of a court in San Francisco has now determined that the claims of Rambus were unfounded. Nine of the jurors were for the rejection of the claims, while three judges were against. The jury had eight weeks to make his decision.
As a result of the ruling is two-thirds of the market capitalization of Rambus evaporates. Rambus develops memory technology, but he stopped himself in the last few years, mainly occupied with lawsuits for the closure of licenses on its patents.