DRAM manufacturers face new fines

China has evidence of antitrust violations.

Despite the fact that the price of DRAM memories begins to fall, the injustice of prices that we have been dragging in recent times is still in our memory. Although the NAND memories have also suffered, the ones that have suffered the worst have been the DRAMs of a lifetime, with price increases of up to 130% between June 2016 and December 2017. The manufacturers, for their part, they have managed to generate exorbitant benefits. Already in 2017 the Chinese regulatory entities began to investigate Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron for suspecting that they agreed the prices of their huge portion of the market (90%, go).

The Chinese authorities warned four months ago that the memory manufacturers would face fines, but now they have made important advances in their investigation. Wu Zhenguo, head of the Chinese antitrust office, has confirmed that they have very clear evidence that could result in fines for each manufacturer of between 800 and 8000 million dollars according to sales between 2016 and 2017.

It was speculated that Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron manipulated the market to undercut high prices, and delayed the expansion of capabilities to coincide with the arrival of Chinese-made DRAM, something that could collapse the market and leave Chinese manufacturers without benefits. . With this kind of practices, the first Chinese manufacturers could be stamped, leaving the three main producers undefeated again. On the other hand, it is said that the Chinese government could be focusing on Micron, given that it is an American company, given the context of the trade war between the two countries. On the American side there are complaints of technology theft by Chinese companies.

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