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The U.S. government has embarked on an investigation of suspected price-fixing in the static random access memory market, raising alarms for world memory chip makers that already suffered heavy fines in a previous anti-trust probe. S-Rams are faster and more expansive than dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, with the market estimated at US$2.9 billion. Samsung Electronics, NEC, Cypress Semiconductor and Toshiba are the main players.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday that it has started the antitrust investigation. The worldĄŻs largest memory chip maker Samsung Electronics admitted it has been asked to submit related documents and pledged a full cooperation with the probe. Earlier this year, the U.S. department handed out huge fines to memory chip makers including Samsung, Hynix Semiconductor and Infineon Technologies for their role in an international conspiracy to fix D-Ram prices after three years of investigation.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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