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Hasn't the DRAM industry gotten in trouble with regulators multiple times for fixing prices?



They have. Giving the industry the benefit of the doubt after decades of price fixing is generous at best.

“To date, five manufacturers have pleaded guilty to their involvement in an international price-fixing conspiracy including Hynix, Infineon, Micron Technology, Samsung, and Elpida.”

It’s claimed to be a very high margin industry and supply is artificially constrained to maintain that margin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/283081-dram-manufactur...




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