American company Micron Technology has not only become a target of Chinese sanctions, but has also been accused by its Chinese competitor, YMTC, a manufacturer of 3D NAND solid-state memory. The Chinese manufacturer recently accused Micron of violating 11 of its patents and filed a lawsuit in a US court.
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The agency reported this this week Bloombergciting a lawsuit filed by YMTC last Friday against the American company Micron Technology in the Federal District Court for the Northern District of California. It accuses Micron of grossly infringing the company’s legal rights to intellectual property protected by 11 patents by the Chinese company YMTC.
The lawsuit was filed the day after a Texas court ruled in favor of Netlist, which accused Micron of violating its intellectual property rights. Micron will now have to pay Netlist $445 million in damages. The amount of damages assessed in the YMTC lawsuit is not specified.
This is not the first case of Micron being sued by YMTC; the first such case was heard by American justice authorities back in November 2023. That lawsuit involved YMTC technologies related to the production and operation of 3D NAND memory chips. Last year, YMTC began supplying its customers with 232-layer memory chips of this type, which is quite in line with the level of technological capabilities of its main global competitors. Micron has been under sanctions in China since May last year; its products cannot be used in critical information infrastructure facilities. Now the Chinese company is trying to prosecute its American competitor on its native soil.
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