Samsung, Micron, SK Hynix Win Antitrust Appeal Over DRAM Prices

March 7, 2022, 6:31 PM UTC

Samsung Electronics Co., Micron Technology Inc., and SK Hynix Inc. escaped antitrust litigation Monday over their alleged scheme to fix the price of dynamic random access memory, when a federal appeals court in San Francisco rejected the case’s consumer claims.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld a ruling by Judge Jeffrey S. White, who found in 2020 that a coordinated conspiracy to curtail DRAM production was no more plausible an explanation for rising prices than parallel strategies adopted by similar businesses in a concentrated market.

Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo, writing for the appeals court, ...

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