Link-A-Media (a flash memory controller company) is being acquired by Korean flash manufacturer, Hynix.
Defendants were software companies (including Symantec), programmable semiconductor firms (including Altera) and memory-chip makers (including Hynix Semiconductor).
The most desperate chip maker, for instance, is South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, formerly named Hyundai Electronics Industries.
Now that the Micron-Hynix deal has fallen apart, prices for memory chips will likely renew their spiral downward.
It is the only North America-based major memory manufacturer that competes against South Korean bigwigs like Samsung and Hynix.
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It is quite likely that by 2017 there will remain only three important DRAM makers: Samsung, Micron, and Hynix.
Shares of Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor, the world's largest and third-largest chip makers respectively, have helped to buoy Korea's stockmarket.
Hynix, which is being courted by America's Micron Technology, has now raised its prices three times since the beginning of December.
State officials, for example, speak wistfully of replacing a recently shuttered Korean-owned Hynix chip plant with a facility to make solar panels.
And yet some observers think that, if the recent rise in chip prices is sustained, Hynix might think that it can survive without Micron.
That would stop a reduction in capacity, ironically guaranteeing the fall in chip prices that forced Hynix to consider the merger in the first place.
Leaders in this sector are Samsung, Toshiba, SanDisk and Hynix.
Hyundai Motor fell 2.1%, while Hynix Semiconductor dropped 1.5%.
Micron Technology (nyse: MU - news - people ), it seemed all but certain, would close its deal to acquire the memory chip business of beleaguered South Korean chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor .
Leaders in this sector are Samsung, Toshiba (other-otc: TOSBF - news - people ), SanDisk (nasdaq: SNDK - news - people ) and Hynix (other-otc: HXSCF - news - people ).
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