12-30-2017, 08:36 PM
https://techreport.com/news/33011/report...ice-fixing
Quote:Don't get too excited yet, gerbils, because the investigation isn't a formal accusation. As China Daily points out, smartphone manufacturers have put insanely-high demand on the memory market. It's possible that the high prices are simply the result of basic supply-and-demand economics at work. However, this wouldn't be the first time that memory manufacturers have colluded on pricing. Back in the early 2000s all of the largest memory manufacturers—Hynix, Infineon, Micron, Samsung, and Elpida—were found to be guilty of price-fixing collusion and faced heavy fines from the US government.