Samsung's Memory Business Hit With Fresh Patent Lawsuit Over HBM and DDR5
There’s a quiet but escalating legal war unfolding in the semiconductor industry’s most lucrative segment — and this time the battlefield extends far beyond Samsung. Netlist, a California-based memory technology firm, has filed a sweeping new complaint against the Korean giant with both the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the Eastern District of Texas federal court, alleging that Samsung’s high-bandwidth memory and DDR5 products infringe on two of its foundational patents. The ripple effects could reach every major player in the AI infrastructure stack, with Google, NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Broadcom all named as co-defendants.