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Price Fixing, Duopolies, and Collusion in the PC hardware Industry
Price fixing in the PC hardware industry.
For three decades all computer prices fell. Then when Wall Street and China start to get involved, something happens. When computer prices mysteriously go up, you need to start to wonder. If you think you smell something funny, you are right. The whole industry now, in every aspect, is wrought with price fixing and collusion.
Small History of price fixing:
GPU
AMD, Nvidia Conspire to Price Fixing; Sued 2008
RAM
Now they’ve been hit with a lawsuit, prices will start to fall, mark my words!
2018 – P Value = 0.9 meaning yes, for sure 90% they are price fixing.
They’ve AGREED to just price fix. Openly.
2002 – DRAM price fixing
2012 – Micron, Oracle settle memory price-fixing lawsuit 2012
2014 – $310 million DRAM price fixing settlement could get you $10 – or much, much more
2015 – DDR3 – Right 2015. Ram has tripled since 2013
2016 – DDR4 – Again prices are rising, Faux shortages
Optical Drives
HP sues seven optical drive makers over price-fixing 2013
Dying optical drive segment faces EU price fixing investigation 2012
Monitors
FBI – LCD Price Fixing Conspiracy 2012
LCD flat-screen makers charged with price fixing 2009
3 Flat-Screen Makers Plead Guilty to Trying to Keep Prices High 2008
SSD
No price fixing here, do you know why? There are many players.
Give them time.
December 2016 Update! That didn’t take long!
Hard Drives
2011- Right now!
You can read my more extensive HDD pricing article here: In depth: Seagate & Western Digital’s Harddrive Price Fixing – The real numbers behind the Fake Hard Drive Shortage.
HDD “Crisis was Fake: Seagate and Western Digital Post big profits 2012
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