Most recently, stiff competition and the rising cost of improving chips has made it even harder for surviving makers of dynamic random-access memory, the chips known as DRAMs that are used to store data in personal computers and server systems.

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At present Micron Technology (nyse: MU - news - people ) and other producers of dynamic random access memory chips for computers--one of the most competitive industries on the planet--are confronted with charges from the Justice Department that imply all three pricing offenses at once.

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Rambus claims Infineon is violating its patents on two kinds of computer memory, known as synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), and Double-Data Rate DRAM (DDR).

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Samsung started mass production of the industry's most advanced mobile DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip, only 10 months after it began producing the industry's first 30nm-class based 2GB LPDDR2 memory in October, 2011.

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