Rambus Claims It Was Price-Fixing Target

conq writes "BusinessWeek reports on the latest developments in the Rambus/Micron saga over pricefixing." From the article: "One e-mail, dated June 5, 2001, from Micron Vice-President Linda Turner to other Micron employees was in response to worries about prices on DDR-DRAM that had been falling. 'No problem!,' Turner wrote. 'We want DDR to explode in the marketplace so have actually been requesting Infineon, Samsung, and Hynix to lower their DDR pricing to help it become a standard (and drive Rambus away completely).'"

Damn, where's the

[TheLevelHeadedOne]

"crashed email server" when you need it...

Let's just say....

[brian0918]

Let's just say that Linda Turner wasn't the fastest bit in the cache...

Re:Damn, where's the

[Stoned4Life]

I bet you won't find any RDRAM in the servers churning out all these old emails.

Where's the problem?

[thelem]

Is keeping prices artificially low actually illegal? Governments normally support anything that benefits the consumer.

Re:Thanks for that!

[Anonymous Coward]

DDR pricing is ridiculous, I had to shell out $59.99 for DDR: Mario Mix with a dance mat included. I mean what are they thinking?

I have no idea what kind if game Rambus is, but they should get better marketing. I'm not gonna buy it if I don't even know what songs are included, geez.

DDR

[Anonymous Coward]

I think DDR exploded in the marketplace as soon as it was available for two player competition at the local mall arcade.