Some of Samsung's leaders were arrested for rising DRAM prices

Three characters holding important positions in the Korean electronics company spent seven to eight months in prison and compensated a total of $ 750,000 for involvement in the intervention of computer memory chip prices.

The figures accused by the US state court were Sun Woo Lee, DRAM's business director, Yeongho Kang, the US market deputy director and Young Woo Lee, Samsung's business director in Germany.

In early 2006, four other officials of Hynix Semiconductor (South Korea) also suffered from five to eight months of imprisonment due to unfair control of DRAM costs.

The US government conducted an inspection of the plots of many manufacturing companies to increase the price of memory chips in personal computers, servers, mobile phones, cameras and game players . starting in 2002. Last October, Samsung received an error and was fined 300 million USD. Hynix has previously pledged $ 185 million in compensation and Infineon Technologies AG (Germany) has repaid $ 160 million since 2004.

The total amount that manufacturers have to pay up to 731 million dollars and become one of the antitrust trials with the largest fines ever. Victims of this conspiracy include many major computer companies such as Dell, Compaq Computer, Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway.