DRAM Makers Accused of Price Fixing

AdamWeeden writes "According to the EETimes, many of the states in the U.S. have entered into a class-action lawsuit against a group of eight DRAM manufacturers. The companies are accused of price-fixing computer memory for over five years, beginning in the late 1990s." From the article: "Four companies and 12 executives have so far pleaded guilty to participating in the conspiracy and have been assessed more than $730 million in fines. In May, three of the four companies, Samsung Electronics, Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and Infineon Technologies AG agreed to pay a total of $160 million to settle class action suits related to price fixing. Elpida Memory Inc., the fourth company to plead guilty, is still involved in the class-action suits."

DRM; oh nos!

[Anonymous Coward]

Blasted DRM makers.... oh, wait a minute.....

Wait...

[Anonymous Coward]

They price fixed for 5 years ... starting in the 1990s...

I wonder if the summary author knows that it's 2006.

Haha

[Rinisari]

If the DRAM market is corrupt, I'll just switch to something else: Rambus! Oh wait...

Free RAM to everyone

[vincnetas]

730.000.000$ / 200$ = 3.650.000Gb = Free RAM to everyone.
Yahooooo !!!

I want to see them on the stand.

[Rob T Firefly]

PROSECUTOR: Did your company engage in price fixing?

DRAM MEMORY: Maybe, maybe not... I just woke up, so I can't remember anything before that.

FLASH RAM: He did! He did! I'm sure of it.

BUBBLE MEMORY: We never had this nonsense in my day, I tellya what. *cough cough*

PUNCH CARD: You're tellin' me. *wheeze*

Re:Price Fixing

[Anonymous Coward]

Well then, how about having them replace the RAM chips purchased by consumers during the offending period.. for the newest, biggest memory chips they've got now.

I'd love to trade my 64MB PC100 SDRAM for a 2GB DDR400 stick...

Re:I want to see them on the stand.

[WilliamSChips]

What type of memory is "Prosecutor" memory? Is that some new-fangled method?