Financial and IP capital shields big semiconductor memory manufacturers

DRAM and SRAM semiconductor memories are the basic inventions before the birth of complex CPU chips. When they were invented and over the time a lot of tech was patented. In today's market DRAM and SRAM manufacturing has become more of a capital intensive and process driven manufacturing rather than leveraging too much of any breakthrough innovation. The leading semiconductor memory manufacturers own range of IPs starting from basic SRAM cell to today's 3D memories and also have invested billions of dollars in building mega fabs to make memory chips. That gives huge advantage to the established semiconductor memory players over any new ventures. With now China focusing and putting huge efforts in building a domestic semiconductor memory manufacturing capacity, there are lot of hurdles for China to cross before the establishment of huge memory manufacturing capacity. For China, acquisition is a way of building capacity, recently a China-based investor SummitView Capital is in the process of acquiring ISSI, a not so big SRAM chip vendor based in US. But this acquisition may not succeed, due to Cypress Semiconductors' higher bid for ISSI. Well if this is one kind of hurdle. Any region which tried to enter into mass manufacturing of semiconductor memory to face the big hurdle of lack of intellectual property assets (in form patents or otherwise) related to semiconductor...