Matsushita yesterday announced that it has sued chip rival
Samsung Electronics, alleging infringement of Matsushita's patents
covering memory chip technologies following the break down of
two-year negotiations between the companies.
Matsushita has asked the New Jersey Federal Court to award it
the sum of $100 million in damages. It claims infringements of
three patents which cover DRAM, or dynamic random access memory,
the most common type of memory in personal computers.
The case could take years to resolve. It's the latest in a
plethora of chip patent disputes among the world's leading chip
design and manufacturing companies.
