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Report: Oracle sued Micron for illegal price-fixing

Oracle has filed with a district court in San Jose claim against Micron Technology. It alleges that the chip maker to have demanded too high prices for memory chips, such as Bloomberg reported.

Micron and other makers of DRAM memory chips are made to fix prices and have driven the prices artificially high. Elpida Memory, Hynix Semiconductor, Infineon and Samsung Electronics are Bloomberg According to the complaint titled as “co-conspirators”, but are not indicted.

The starting point of the process is a business with Sun Microsystems. Oracle Sun had taken over in late January.

As early as 2002 had identified the United States Department of Justice for illegal price-fixing among chipmakers. Four companies were affected. 16 participants were sentenced to fines totaling $ 731 million (approximately € 545 million). Micron was working together with authorities to avoid an indictment.

2007 Micron paid in a settlement over $ 80 million (nearly € 60 million) in antitrust cases, the sales concerned von 1999 to 2002. Between 1998 and 2002, Sun acquired by Micron DRAM chips worth over $ 2 billion.

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