DRAM Price Fixing

Posted by Hemos on Monday May 12, 2003 @12:02AM 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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Cost Effieciency by Anonymous Coward · 2003-05-12 00:18 · Score: -1, Troll

It is commendable that the SDRAM conglomerates can actualize their cost-effectiveness using the new process mechanisms. In order to reduce RAS delays in the output matrix in the FSB while maintaining integrity of the sine wave, a key technical infrastructure has to be optimised.

By allocating a 400MHz memory bus for the Opteron circuits in an overlay utopian intelligent monitor (aka Intellivision), one could attenuate the signal distortion strength.

What do you think?