DRAM Price Fixing Investigations

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 3, 2004 @04:09AM from the at-least-it's-still-cheap dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A few days ago after FTC antitrust charges against Rambus were thrown out, the U.S. Department of Justice and EU have both begun probes against the 4 largest memory makers in accusation of price fixing during 2001/2002. News.com.com has information regarding the pending EU investigation. Anandtech and Silcon.com both have primers on the U.S. investigation. If you thought you paid too much for RAM in 2002, chances are you may have been more right than you originally thought."

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Coordination? by Puls4r · 2004-03-03 04:12 · Score: 0, Flamebait

If we had MORE coordination like this from countries like Japan and China (who are the prime violaters of undercutting, sweat shops, etc), we might finally be able to level the playing field a bit more in the international trade arena.

Perhaps if the US and EU could work more closely together they could force our Pacific Rim and Asian counterparts to see that their unfair practices are not... appreciated.