Samsung and Rambus reach $900 million settlement
Samsung and Rambus today announced that they have buried their differences and have solved their dispute amicably. Under the new settlement, they have settled all claims between them, licensing Rambus’ patent portfolio covering all Samsung semiconductor products including a perpetual fully paid-up license to certain current DRAM products. As part of the overall agreement, Samsung will invest $200Million in Rambus stock. Other consideration to Rambus includes an initial payment of $200M and a quarterly payment of about $25M for the next five years — taking the final settlement number to $900 million.
In addition, Samsung and Rambus have signed a memorandum of understanding relating to a new generation of memory technologies which brings together Samsung’s leadership in memory technologies with Rambus’ innovations in high performance memory interfaces.
The two companies will initially focus on graphics and mobile memory solutions and will further review a potential collaboration on server and high-speed NAND Flash memories.
