Tech licensing company Rambus said Monday it would start selling chips under its own brand, a move aimed at reducing its dependence on income from litigation to defend its patents.
Tech Licensor Rambus to Start Selling Chips Under Own Brand
The move is aimed at reducing the company’s dependence on income from patent litigation.
Rambus
Shares of the company, known for its years of aggressive patent lawsuit battles against chip makers, were flat in morning trading.
Rambus said that the memory chips are designed to improve the performance of server systems used by businesses and data centers and that it was currently shipping samples of the chips, called RB26, to potential customers.
Instead of manufacturing the chips itself, Rambus will hire specialists to make them, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, adding that commercial production would start later this year.
Rambus, founded in 1990, started developing technologies to make high-speed memory chips and decided to license them to other companies.
Manufacturers not agreeing to pay license fee were sued by the company for infringement. Rambus has waged years of patent wars with chip makers such as Micron Technology, Nvidia and SK Hynix.
(Reporting by Abhirup Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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