For a long time, the United States has dominated the development of global chip technology, so it is often American companies that accuse other companies of patent infringement, but now all this is reversed, and it is reported that a Chinese chip company is suing an American chip giant in the United States, accusing the other party of patent infringement, but the American chip giant still wants to make money in China!
In 2016, China established three memory chip companies, and Micron, one of the American chip giants, repeatedly attacked these three Chinese memory chip companies, accusing them of infringing patents.
As a latecomer, Chinese memory chip companies insist on independent technology research and development, starting from the lowest layer of 32-layer NAND flash, and the 32-layer and 64-layer NAND flash chip technologies are used for technology research and development and verification, accumulating chip technology patents, and not entering large-scale mass production.
In 2019, China's memory chip companies successfully developed 128-layer NAND flash memory chips, and last year, they successfully developed the world's most advanced 232-layer NAND flash chips, thus becoming a technology leader in the memory chip industry.
In 2022, China's memory chip market share has reached about 7%, from zero to enter the top six in the world, which can be seen from the rapid rise of China's memory chips, and also proves that China's memory chips have unique technical advantages in independent research and development of memory chip technology.
Under the fact that China's memory chips finally achieved technological leadership, Chinese memory chip companies suddenly discovered that Micron, one of the chip giants in the United States, had infringed on 8 patents of Chinese memory chips and demanded that Micron pay patent fees, but Micron ignored them, so Chinese memory chip companies sued Micron in the United States.
Recalling that a few years ago, after China's memory chips were just established, Micron repeatedly blocked the development of China's memory chips on the grounds of patent infringement, and now Chinese memory chip companies have taken up patent weapons to countersue Micron, and the situation has reversed in just a few years.
As the world's third largest memory chip company, Micron has also made a lot of money, but it has suffered losses in the fourth quarter of last year, with losses of $2.3 billion and $1.9 billion in the first and second quarters of this year, respectively.
One of the reasons Micron's decline to such a point is its rapid decline in the Chinese market, which at its peak contributed more than $17 billion, and now Micron's revenue from the Chinese market is only billions of dollars, and China, the world's largest memory chip market, has plummeted, leading to a decline.
In order to return to the Chinese market, Micron executives recently visited China, hoping to resume cooperation with the Chinese market, but it has done so many dirty things about Chinese memory chips before, and now it has infringed on the patents of Chinese memory chip companies.
Facts have proved that the Chinese market is too important to American chips, who loses the Chinese market, who will be difficult to survive in the chip market, in addition to Micron understands this truth, Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and many other American chip companies understand this truth, they are actively expanding the Chinese market, to ensure that they continue to obtain income from the Chinese market.