Chip designer Rambus Inc. has asked a federal judge in San Jose to rule that Hynix Semiconductor Inc. can't sell chips in the US. Rambus has filed similar suits against Samsung Electronics Co. and Boise, Idaho-based Micron Technology alleging they conspired to fix prices for memory chips.

Nokia said Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic and Siemens have accepted the offer, and it also expects Samsung Electronics to accept the offer.

The WiMax Forum has issued its first certifications for mobile-centric products that operate around the 2.5GHz frequency, and said it will start certifying 3.5GHz products later this year. The organization announced that 10 mobile WiMax products had received the "WiMax Forum Certified Seal of Approval". Four base stations, from Alvarion, Motorola, Samsung and Sequans, won certification, along with mobile modules from Intel, Samsung, Beceem, Airspan and Zyxel.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics is to invest one billion dollars in a "state-of-the-art" microchip manufacturing facility in the Philippines. The Manila Bulletin newspaper said the facility will be built on a 30-hectare (74-acre) site in the Clark Special Economic Zone near the former US airforce base north of Manila. Quoting unnamed sources, the paper said "it will be a state-of-the-art" facility with construction starting "within the year."

Il Ung Kim, the sixth Samsung executive to plead guilty, has agreed to serve 14 months in a US prison, the longest imprisonment ever by a foreign defendant charged with price fixing in the US, according to the US' Department of Justice (DoJ).