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
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