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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. DRAM is veeeery cheap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't understand the problem. 1GB (2x512MB) of PC2700 DDR memory can be bought under $100.

    DoJ should investigate OS or Office suite price fixing instead. These are horribly overpriced.

  2. Taiwan Mafia by it0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always found it suspicious that everytime RAM prices came down, the factory was on fire, blown away by tornado, or was hit by an earthquake. It was like they really had a bad case of Sim City.