Micron enters $600 million settlement of Netlist patent dispute
Micron will pay Netlist $30 million per quarter for five years to settle patent claims over memory chips and related technologies.
- On Tuesday, Netlist announced that Micron agreed to pay $600 million to settle a patent dispute, resolving all pending legal proceedings between the two companies.
- Previously, Netlist secured a $445 million patent infringement verdict against Micron in Texas federal court in 2024, and filed an International Trade Commission complaint seeking to block Micron chip imports.
- Under the five-year agreement, Micron will pay $30 million per quarter beginning in the fourth quarter of 2026, granting it a license covering server DIMMs and High Bandwidth Memory technologies.
- "The agreement with Micron further validates the value of our AI memory technologies," Netlist CEO C.K. Hong said, adding the company remains committed to protecting its intellectual property.
- This resolution mirrors an August settlement between Netlist and Samsung involving $421 million in patent verdicts, positioning both deals as major victories in semiconductor intellectual property disputes.
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(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = U.S. memory semiconductor company Micron has settled its patent lawsuit with Netlist for around 800 billion won.
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Micron enters $600 million settlement of Netlist patent dispute
Oct 6 : Computer-memory company Netlist announced on Tuesday that Micron would pay $600 million to settle a patent dispute over Micron's memory chips.• Netlist said in a statement that Micron would pay $30 million per quarter for a five-year license to Netlist's patent portfolio that includes its "high ban
Micron agrees to pay Netlist $600 million to end patent war
Samsung already paid Netlist roughly $920 million weeks earlier to settle a similar six-year patent fight over HBM and memory modules. SK Hynix remains the last holdout, still facing an active Netlist lawsuit in Texas over its RDIMM and LRDIMM products.
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