Questions:
1. Can someone explain why this is not a clear cut of a collusion? Didn't the same "cartel" get busted for this behavior a while ago?
2. Why aren't they under tight regulation since they have a history of doing this?
Wow. Looks like all five manufacturers pled guilty in the original US case. Given that the suit from last year is ongoing, this seems to be a real problem in this industry.
> They've pled guilty in the original DRAM price fixing collusion and they just got sued last year for the same charge, it's ongoing.
Now you are making stuff up. We are in 2018, not 2006. There is no regulatory investigation by any gov't antitrust agency. China's NDRC announced that they had "massive evidence" of price fixing by Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix, in 2018. It turned out they had nothing, so instead they tried to blackmail Samsung and SK Hynix to drop all pending and future patent lawsuits against China's domestic companies in exchange for dropping a multibillion dollar fine and antitrust violation that they couldn't prove.
You clearly haven't read the class-action lawsuit by Hagens Berman in which the law firm alleges that the memory companies "coordinated" by signaling each other via PR. Do you understand why the class lawsuit is not going anywhere?
Please provide sources to the NDRC case, that's why I asked in the first place about why this isn't collusion. My understanding is limited to the original 2006 case where these companies were in fact charged and fined by Department of Justice, that's not a made up story and I provided the source to that.
Telling me "no proof of collusion" without any source is the same as making stuff up.
Technically, we're in 2019 but that's off the topic.
If you are citing Wiki, you probably know very little about the older 2006 case. You seem to make haste assumption on what, how, and who are involed this time around without any facts or understanding claims made by different parties.
> Telling me "no proof of collusion" without any source is the same as making stuff up.
You are the one making accusation against the DRAM makers of price-fixing, it's your obligation to prove your allegations. The burden of proof is not on me to prove the negative (which is a logical fallacy).
I am highly suspicious of China's motivation for this. It happened at roughly the same time as news broke that the chinese stole Micron's technology. China is not exactly known for good or fair practices, and it would not be the first time they screwed over a foreign competitor and stole their tech to make a competitor.
