News YMTC sues Micron in the U.S. Accusing Micron of infringing 11 of its patents

[Admin]

Chinese Yangtze Memory says Micron's memory infringers its patents, asks court to stop sales of Micron's 3D NAND in the U.S. and royalties.

YMTC sues Micron in the U.S. Accusing Micron of infringing 11 of its patents : Read more

 

[RoLleRKoaSTeR]

A Chinese company suing for patent infringement? - Ooooh, the irony. Get me my fainting couch.

 

[pboymt]

A Chinese company suing for patent infringement? - Ooooh, the irony. Get me my fainting couch.

It’s interesting that Micron has more than once used false accusations to strangle emerging competitors. Fujian Jinhua was the last victim, and it was proven that they did not infringe on any of Micron’s patents, yet the lengthy investigation process led to their eventual bankruptcy. Yangtze Memory reduced the manufacturing cost of NAND by 50% through its xtacking technology, but in order to maintain high NAND prices, Micron restricted Yangtze Memory’s capacity expansion by lobbying the U.S. Department of Commerce to add them to the entity list. Ultimately, only solid-state storage products of all brands sold in the Chinese region saw a price drop of over 60%, while consumers in other regions could not purchase such inexpensive solid-state storage products due to Micron’s malicious litigation.

 

[thestryker]

It'll be interesting to see if there's any merit here as Micron has been rather litigious in the past. I wonder if they'll go after the patents themselves, settle or take this onto court.