( June 25, 2026, 16:57 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Micron Technology were hit with a proposed US class action accusing them of conspiring to fix the supply and prices for dynamic random access memory (DRAM). “The DRAM oligopolists have simultaneously cut production, coordinated a pivot to HBM and exit from DDR3 and DDR4, and otherwise decreased and locked up conventional DRAM supply while prices charged up with mind-blowing scale and rapidity. Yet contrary to all economic and business logic, the DRAM oligopolists each cut conventional DRAM supply further, with Micron going so far as to shutter its consumer DRAM business, Crucial, at the most profitable price point in its history,” plaintiffs said. See attached file....
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