By Pia Heikkila, 20 June 2002 16:35
NEWS US officials have accused the memory maker Rambus of anti-competitive behaviour. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged Rambus with violating US antitrust laws and has also warned other DRAM memory makers about similar conduct. The FTC accused Rambus of deceiving consumers by trying to curb competition when the company was a member of a standards setting committee. The FTC said Rambus' conduct harms the tech market as a whole. "The conduct at issue here has done substantial harm to important technology markets, and threatens to undermine participation in industry standard-setting activities more generally. By issuing this complaint, the Commission is sending a signal not only to Rambus but also to other companies," the FTC said in a statement. Rambus has responded to the FTC's complaint claiming the Commission is just following a litigation trail. "The FTC's complaint stems from the same facts and the same core allegations as are currently being litigated in multiple private lawsuits, including the Infineon case, tried last year in Virginia," the company said in a statement. Rambus has recently been involved in a series of lawsuits over patent infringements, involving several companies, including Hynix, Infineon, Intel, Micron and Toshiba.
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