Mannerisms (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
With the awful examples of Rambus and Qualcomm in front of it, it's a bold move by Spansion to decide to sue Samsung for patent infringement in a bid to establish itself as an IP licensing company. ...
BlackBerryCool (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Spanion is suing Samsung and wants to halt all U.S. BlackBerry sales. I doubt very much this will happen.
ITGS @ AHS (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
One of the leading electronic producing companies will face infringement charges on its flash memory chips, according to The New York Times. In a complaint to the International Trade Commission in Washington, Spansion is seeking to bar the import into the United States of more than 100 million music players, cell phones, cameras and light laptop [...]
Hacking Cough (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Spansion is trying to milk the attention that comes with supposedly green technologies for all its worth. If you think today's release about EcoRAM is familiar, that's because it is . In June, Spansion talked about its deal with startup Virident and a plan to bung shedloads of flash memory into servers in a bid to save power. Today's 'story' is touted as revealing the architecture. It does nothing...
Business Week (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
To hear filed in the U.S. against South Korea’s , the two companies face a legal battle that will have enormous repercussions in both semiconductor and consumer electronics markets. The claim, filed with the International Trade Commission and the U.S. District Court in Delaware, seeks an import ban on some 100 million electronic devices, including Apple’s iPod and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. That’s...
MacBlender (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Memory chip maker Spansion has taken legal action that could result in import bans that would block shipments of iPods and Blackberry handsets, according to the Wall Street Journal. The company filed a lawsuit in a Delaware federal court and submitted a complaint to the US International Trade Commission. Although the memory company is not [...]
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
The Internet has fueled the rise of corporate data centers which will be full of something like 6.8 million computer servers by the year 2010. Each data center consumes the energy of about 25,000 homes. That’s why the new EcoRAM computer architecture being described today by flash memory chip maker Spansion and Silicon Valley firm Virident Systems is important. It is one of the keys to making servers...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Spansion licensed the Virident GreenGateway Platform(TM) to create the Spansion EcoRAM Accelerator -- an innovative memory controller -- in a standard x86 processor socket. The integration of the Spansion EcoRAM Accelerator allows the system to read from Spansion EcoRAM DIMMs at DRAM speeds and latency. The architecture leverages memory access techniques that have been used in the high-end server world...
Mac World UK (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Spansion try and ban sales of 100 million iPods, cell phones and digital cameras Flash memory developer Spansion has filed patent infringement suits against Samsung seeking to ban the US sale of more than 100 million iPods, cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer devices containing flash technology.
HardMac.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Spansion, the world's leading pure-play provider of slash memory solutions, announced to have filed two separate patent infringement complaints against Samsung with the International Trade Commission and in the U.S. District Court in Delaware. Claims are quite extreme, as Spansion is seeking the exclusion from the U.S. market of over one hundred million mp3 players, cell phones, digital cameras and...
The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Flash memory developer Spansion has filed patent infringement suits against Samsung seeking to ban the U.S. sale of more than 100 million iPods, cell phones, digital cameras and other consumer devices containing flash technology. Spansion claims Samsung's flash memory components violate nine patents granted to Spansion between 1998 and 2002, relating to the structure, isolation and operation of memory...
Photonics.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Samsung Electronics is facing patent infringement issues, including complaints filed by Eastman Kodak Co., and Spansion Inc. The Kodak act
DV Hardware (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Spansion has sued Samsung over flash memory patents and wants to block U.S. sales of devices with Samsung flash memory, this includes products such as the iPod, BlackBerry and other popular devices. Sunnyvale-based Spansion, the world's No. 3 maker of flash memory chips by revenue, sued South Korea's Samsung on Monday. Spansion claims more than "one hundred million mp3 players, cell phones, digital...
TechSpot (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Samsung has found itself at the receiving end of a patent infringement lawsuit recently filed with the ITC and the US District Court. Spansion, the company behind the lawsuit, is accusing Samsung of violating several patents they own, including at least 10 they specifically mention in their case. The patents all relate to flash memory technologies, which Samsung of course makes ample use of in a h...
BetaNews (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
In what the company happily proclaimed to be "one of the largest patent infringement claims ever filed," flash patent holder Spansion Inc. has filed infringement suits against Samsung in federal court and before the USITC.
