Toshiba says subpoenaed over flash memory
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Japanese electronics firm Toshiba Corp.  said it had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice  about its flash memory business in the key U.S. market.
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Cost: $288m Toshiba has settled its rancorous NAND flash memory lawsuit with Lexar, but at a hefty price.â¦
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) -- Japan&#39;s Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday it has field suit against South Korea&#39;s Hynix Semiconductor Inc. in Japan and the United States, alleging infringement of Toshiba&#39;s semiconductor flash memory patents.
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SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors said that Hynix Semiconductor is being investigated in connection with an alleged accounting fraud involving 1.7 billion dollars.
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Major Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp. said Friday that it is recalling 830,000 batteries made by Sony for its laptops, the latest in a growing global recall involving Sony batteries.
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(InfoWorld) - Toshiba and Micron TechnologyÂ have settled a number of outstanding lawsuits regarding alleged patent infringement and theft of trade secrets related to computer memory chips. Under terms of an agreement announced Friday, Toshiba will purchase some Micron patents related to semiconductor technology and license patents previously owned by Lexar Media, which wasÂ acquired by MicronÂ earlier this year. Toshiba will pay $288 million to Micron in return for the patents and licenses, Toshiba said. The amount is substantially less than the $465 million inÂ compensation awarded to LexarÂ by a California court in 2005. The payment has been on hold since late last year after Toshiba succeeded in having the damages reconsidered andÂ filed an appealÂ seeking to overturn the original guilty verdict. Earlier this year Lexar raised the stakes by asking the U.S. International Trade Commission toÂ bar the importÂ of some of Toshiba's NAND flash-memory chips and products containing them. The ITC action will now be dismissed, along with others at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and the California Court of Appeals, Toshiba said. Toshiba became business partners with Lexar when it invested $3 million in the company in 1997 and acquired a seat on its board of directors. According to Lexar's original complaint, Toshiba sat on the board for two and a half years and gained access to the company's product plans and technology, while at the same time working with Lexar rival SanDisk. Â
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Antitrust regulators in the US have asked Intel and STMicroelectronics for additional  data on the planned spinoff of their flash memory unit.
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Antitrust regulators are asking Intel and STMicroelectronics to supply them with more information about their plan to spin off their flash memory unit.
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Claims manufactured discs unlicensed Toshiba last week launched legal action against an Italian disc duplication company it maintains has infringed its intellectual property.â¦
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Toshiba has agreed to pay $288 million to settle lawsuits between it and memory chipmaker Lexar Media, which was acquired by Micron Technology in June. Since 2002, Lexar has been engaged in a court battle with Toshiba regarding patent infringement of flash memory technology.
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By Susan Decker and Ian King Bloomberg News  Toshiba Corp., the world's second-biggest flash memory maker, said it will pay $288 million to Micron Technology Inc. to end patent litigation started by a company Micron bought in June.  Lexar Media Inc.
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TOKYO : Japanese electronics giant Toshiba said it was taking legal action against major South Korean microchip maker Hynix in Tokyo and Texas for alleged infringement of Toshiba&#39;s semiconductor memory patents.
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Toshiba Corp, Japan&#39;s second largest chipmaker, has agreed to start selling a type of semiconductor known as flash memory to Apple Computer Inc, maker of the best-selling iPod digital music player.
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Japanese electronics giant Toshiba said it was taking legal action against major South Korean microchip maker Hynix in Tokyo and Texas for alleged infringement of Toshiba's semiconductor memory patents.
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Automotive parts supplier Delphi Corp. said Wednesday it received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission in late July related to agreements with Electronic Data Systems Corp.
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(InfoWorld) - Nvidia became the second major chip maker subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over an antitrust investigation into the market for graphics chips and cards, the company said Friday.Â Advanced Micro Devices was subpoenaedÂ a day earlier. Nvidia, one of the world's largest graphics processor makers, said no specific allegations have been made against it, and that it plans to cooperate with the DOJ in the investigation. The DOJ has not said specifically what it is investigating, but it has taken a hard line on price fixing in the chip industry in recent years. As of mid-November, the DOJ had charged four companies and 17 people in aÂ DRAM price fixing investigation, securing fines totaling more than $731 million. In October, the DOJ began anÂ investigation into the SRAMÂ market. AMD recently entered the graphics chip business with itsÂ acquisition of ATI Technologies, which was finalized in October. The company also said the DOJ has not made any allegations against AMD or ATI, and that it intends to cooperate with the investigation.
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Ex-chip maker whips out bus snooping infringement claim