• DocumentCode
    1174905
  • Title

    Price fixing in the memory market [DRAM prices]

  • Author

    Moore, S.K.

  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    18
  • Lastpage
    20
  • Abstract
    This work focuses on the investigations conducted by the US Department of Justice on the allegations of price fixing in the memory industry. It discusses the details of the case against Infineon Technologies AG, which plead guilty to participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices for dynamic random access memories (DRAM) sold to certain PC and server makers in the US. Regardless of how much of an impact the conspiracy had on price, the fact that Infineon agreed to plead guilty indicates that others were involved, and there will be more fines, as well as penalties and perhaps even jail sentences to come.
  • Keywords
    DP industry; DRAM chips; law; marketing; pricing; DRAM; Infineon Technologies AG; PC maker; dynamic random-access memory; memory industry; price fixing; server maker; Benign tumors; Cellular phones; Computer crashes; Deafness; Ear; Government; Joining processes; Large-scale systems; Neoplasms; Random access memory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.2004.1363634
  • Filename
    1363634