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DRAM Price Fixing Investigations

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. High Prices by torchta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hell they wont do anything about the oil companys fixing prices so why mess with computer companys. You can tell me 4 Billion in profits is not over inflated prices.

  2. WTH? I submitted this story on the 27th! by kellman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good ol' slashdot. I post it, and it's rejected. An AC posts, and it's accepted.

    I'm starting to wonder why I bother...

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  3. Re:Market fixes itself in this case by irokitt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Perhaps that's why the Dells at school (bought in 2002) have had so many problems-Dell buys from the less-than-reliable manufacturers. Lets see, 60 computers, about 8 hard drive failures, 2 monitors that wouldn't work out of the box, a memory stick that went bad. Fscking Dells.

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  4. DRAM was cheap in 2002 by walterbyrd · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I bought a 256MB stick for $10 after rebate.