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• DRAM prices up over 27% since China FAB fire

  Prices of DRAM chips have continued to climb after a major Hynix FAB plant was damaged by fire last week.

• After Hynix plant fire, spot market DRAM prices jump 20%

  If damage to SK Hynixs large FAB facility in China is extensive, production could take as long as six months to resume and as much as 10% of the worlds DRAM supply would be affected.

• Hynix plant explosions leave memory shipments on hold

  The Korean press reports that a huge explosion and fire in Hynix's fabrication plants 1 and 2 in China may put DRAM shipments on hold for the foreseeable future. Hynix is responsible for about 30% of the world's DRAM production.

• Rambus considers antitrust appeal as stock falls

  Rambus is considering whether to appeal the Wednesday jury verdict that <a href="http://www.cio.com/article/694345/Jury_Rules_Against_Rambus_in_Antitrust_Case">scuttled its antitrust suit</a> against Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technologies, which could have required the defendants to pay nearly US$12 billion in damages.

• Jury rules against Rambus in antitrust case

  A San Francisco jury has rejected a US$4 billion antitrust claim by Rambus against rival RAM makers Hynix Semiconductor and Micron Technology, a California court announced Wednesday.

• Samsung buys MRAM maker Grandis

  Samsung Electronics today said it has acquired Grandis, Inc., a Milpitas, Calif., maker of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) technology known as spin transfer torque (STT-RAM).

• Former Microsoft CTO's firm files patent lawsuits

  Intellectual Ventures, a patent portfolio developer and broker started by former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, has filed patent lawsuits against nine tech companies, including Symantec, McAfee and Hynix Semiconductor.

• HP, Hynix to jointly bring next-gen memory to market

  Hewlett-Packard today announced that it has entered into a joint development agreement with Hynix Semiconductor to develop and bring memristor, a new circuit element first demonstrated in HP Labs, to market in future memory products.

• iSuppli warns of looming DRAM shortage

  A shortage of the main memory chips used in personal computers could send prices of the chips higher in the second half of this year, market researcher iSuppli warned on Monday

• States settle price-fixing complaint against DRAM makers

  Thirty-three states, including California, have reached a US$173 million settlement with six DRAM makers alleged to have fixed prices for their products between 1998 and 2002, California Attorney General Edmund "Jerry" Brown Jr. announced.