Rambus has beaten Hynix Semiconductor in its patent infringement case, with a court ordering its rival to pay $306.5 million in damages....

...Memory designer Rambus had alleged that Hynix and other large memory manufacturers infringed its patents in producing DDR DRAM--the most common type of memory in PCs today--as well as in making SDRAM and DDR2 DRAM. The vast majority of PCs and servers produced in the past several years use one of these types of memory, and variants of DDR are expected to be incorporated into PCs for the next several years...

...Rambus currently has suits pending against Samsung Electronics, Nanya Technology and Micron Technology.