Samsung Loses Texas Trial Over Patents for Chip-Making Process

Samsung infringes patents owned by a California R&D firm for ways to improve performance in chips and should pay $25 million in damages, a federal jury in Marshall, Texas, said.

• Acorn Technologies claimed Samsung infringed four patents for ways to reduce contact resistance between the metal and silicon in transistors, which can prevent the chip from performing certain functions
  • Acorn, which describes itself as a “longtime pioneer in the design and development of semiconductor technologies,” said the inventions allow for chips that are “smaller, faster, lighter and more efficient than ever before”
• The trial focused on Samsung’s 14-nanometer fin-shaped ...