Spansion, the maker of memory chips, has a new business in question on Monday, but their movements against Samsung, does not mean that the iPod does not exist rays from the sale of Christmas.

The company said that the submission of two claims of patent infringement in the U.S. against the largest manufacturer of memory chips, before a court in Delaware and the other with the Committee for International Trade.

They want the ICC to ban the importation of more than 100 MP3 players, mobile phones, digital cameras, and other electronic devices with Samsung had the flash memory chips.

The ICC is committed to a timetable for a court order to end these imports 12 to 16 months, Bertrand Cambou, Spansion head of the Directorate (photo), and Boaz Eitan, Executive Vice President, I said.

Mr. Eitan is also CEO of Saifun Semiconductors, the Israeli firm Spansion acquired in March.

At the time, Mr. Cambou understand Spansion would be the mobilization of Saifun experience with the granting of licenses and intellectual property rights in the operation of their own portfolios of more than 3000 patents.

“Nobody believed, but then we Spansion was known that they come in a large scale, the awarding of licenses for businesses and expects that hundreds of millions of dollars cost for the license,” the head of the ‘executive told me.

“It is a society with a view to the future and for the granting of licenses will be great for us because of the strength of our intellectual property,” he said.

Spansion, a spin-off of a joint venture with Fujitsu and AMD, is the need for new revenue sources. Price of flash memory for the industry have been the collapse of the company is the use of approximately $ 1.4 billion for the debt, and analysts do not expect profitability in 2010.

Samsung says Mr. Cambou firmly closed the door to negotiations for the award of licenses, which a year ago and Spansion has been building their case, with help from Saifun, in the course of the last nine months.