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

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, ...