The global settlement between Micron and Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co was confirmed in an emailed statement to the media from a Micron spokesperson. According to the statement, the two companies will mutually withdraw their claims against each other globally, ending all litigation between the two parties. However, the details of the agreement were not disclosed, and a Micron spokesperson remained silent.

The settlement brings to an end years of litigation between Micron and Fujian Jinhua. Back in December 2017, Micron Technology filed a lawsuit against UMC and Fujian Jinhua in federal court in California, alleging that UMC stole its intellectual property, including key technologies for memory chips, through Micron's employees in Taiwan, and provided them to Fujian Jinhua, which was found to be a violation of Micron's trade secrets.

In the following time, Micron Technology launched a series of legal actions until November 26, 2021, UMC issued an announcement announcing that the company had reached a global settlement agreement with Micron, and the two sides agreed to withdraw the lawsuits filed by each other. At the same time, UMC also agreed to pay Micron an undisclosed amount of settlement money, and the two parties will jointly explore cooperation opportunities in the future.

Now, two years later, Micron and Fujian Jinhua officially reached a global settlement, ending this high-profile storage war.

However, it should be noted that in May 2023, the National Cyberspace Administration issued a notice pointing out that Micron products have serious cybersecurity problems, posing a major security risk to China's critical information infrastructure supply chain, and directly affecting China's national security. In the legal conclusion of the Cybersecurity Review Office, it is clear that it will not pass the cybersecurity review. This conclusion led to operators of our domestic critical information infrastructure being asked to stop purchasing Micron products.

This announcement makes Micron's products face a severe situation in the Chinese market, and the existence of network security issues has made it questioned in the field of critical information infrastructure. The global settlement is good news for Micron, but its future development in the Chinese market is still full of uncertainty under the shadow of cybersecurity issues. This has also led to deep thinking in the industry about how technology companies balance the complex issues of intellectual property protection, cooperation opportunities exploration, and cybersecurity.