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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 24 (Reuters) - A U.S. jury handed computer technology and research company Rambus Inc. (RMBS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) a big legal victory on Monday by finding that South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (000660.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) violated patents on memory chip technology.
The jury in the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose ordered Hynix, the second-biggest maker of memory chips in the world, to pay $307 million to Rambus, which developed technology to make such chips run faster.
The jury awarded $30.5 million regarding patents on a type of DRAM computer memory known as SDRAM and $276.4 million on a type known as DDRSD.
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 24 (Reuters) - A U.S. jury handed computer technology and research company Rambus Inc. (RMBS.O: Quote, Profile, Research) a big legal victory on Monday by finding that South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (000660.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) violated patents on memory chip technology.
The jury in the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose ordered Hynix, the second-biggest maker of memory chips in the world, to pay $307 million to Rambus, which developed technology to make such chips run faster.
The jury awarded $30.5 million regarding patents on a type of DRAM computer memory known as SDRAM and $276.4 million on a type known as DDRSD.