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Memory company Rambus won a patent case against rival memory makers on Wednesday when a court ruled that the company did not engage in anticompetitive behavior or violate antitrust laws related to on-chip memory technology.

Sun Microsystems is promising to file a new lawsuit after a federal judge threw out a complaint that Hynix Semiconductor and other manufacturers of dynamic RAM (DRAM) illegally inflated their prices.

Micron Technology is offering a new 16GB DRAM memory chip it's billing as the densest server-memory module on the market.

Graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. launched its nForce2 line of products Tuesday, featuring new technology that combines graphic and chipset functions aimed at the digital media market.

The antitrust probe launched by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) into the DRAM (dynamic RAM) market appears to be larger than originally suspected, as additional memory chipmakers confirmed that the agency has contacted them as part of the investigation.

Intel was once the leading advocate for RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic RAM), but on Friday its executives declined to confirm whether its future chipsets would support the high-speed memory interface technology, saying Rambus is not the current first choice of consumers.

With RDRAM (Rambus Dynamic RAM) now firmly established as a niche memory product, DDR SDRAM (Double Data Rate Synchronous DRAM) is set to become the most commonly used PC memory this year, with shipments of DDR chips soon to exceed those of low-end SDRAM chips. But users should be cautious when purchasing faster DDR333 memory as not all chips conform with standards defined by an industry group.

Anyone considering adding extra memory to a personal computer to facilitate the upgrade to Windows XP will be wishing they'd done so earlier. Computer memory prices have been rising steadily since November and have registered large jumps in the first few trading days of this year -- jumps that are quickly being reflected in retail prices.

After steadily falling for almost one and a half years, the price of DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips has surged in the last week and consumers could feel the effects as early as this week in higher retail prices.