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DRAM Price Fixing

Posted by Hemos on from the how-we-all-agree-on-the-price dept.

AEton writes "There's an interesting article up at Newsforge, an OSDN sibling site, about price fixing in the DRAM market. According to Melanie Hollands, a technology analyst, market consolidation and uncertain prices have contributed to subtle cooperation between the major DRAM "competitors" to keep prices high. While she finds little "hard evidence of collusion", there are strong circumstantial trends which last year sparked a secretive Department of Justice antitrust inquiry." Allegations of this have been floating around for a while - heck, you can even join the suit.

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  1. FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp? Could it be???

    1. Re:FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Oh yes.. it is.. :-)

    2. Re:FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. YOU DID IT!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Unfortunately, you are an AC, so I am forced to claim that first post for the CLIT. Please log in before posting. Thank you.

  3. My computer only has SIMM boards, by noogle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you insensitive clod!

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  4. Re:You will eat your RAM and like it! by sehryan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How about they figure out how to get gas down from 2.50 a pop...

    Move. Where I live we are at 1.29 for the cheap stuff.

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  5. RAM is relatively cheap... by dentar · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What concerns me is the price fixing going in with gasoline. All the gas stations in my area always jack up the prices on the same day, and they're always the same price. There's no way that's not collusion! I only buy RAM once a year or so, but I have to buy gas once a week. I buy way more gas than RAM, so RAM price fixing doesn't concern me as much.

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