States to File Suits Against Chip Makers By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter
July 14, 2006; Page A7 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115283894072406482.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news NEW YORK -- New York state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer said he filed a lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan charging memory-chip manufacturers with price fixing. Separately, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said he will file a similar action today in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. They will be joined by the attorneys general of more than 30 other states. The suits charge that the chip makers made a secret agreement to raise the prices of their memory chips. DRAMs, for dynamic random access memory chips, are used in computers and consumer-electronics devices. The suits follow an investigation by the Justice Department that has produced guilty pleas by Samsung Electronics Co. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. of South Korea, Infineon Technologies AG of Germany and Elpida Memory Inc. of Japan. The defendants in the latest lawsuits include Micron Technology Inc. of Boise, Idaho, Infineon, Elpida, Hynix, and Nanya Technology Corp. of Taiwan. ================================================= George Antunes Voice (713) 743-3923 Associate Professor Fax (713) 743-3927 Political Science Internet: antunes at uh dot edu University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-3011 Reply with a "Thank you" if you liked this post. _____________________________ MEDIANEWS mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
