Samsung senior US chip price manipulation was sentenced to 8 months imprisonment

Ministry of Justice said that during 2001-2002 he together with other people together to control a computer memory chip prices directly affect DELL, HP, IBM, apple computer, Gateway, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Compaq, which was acquired by HP in 2002.

Thursday, U.S. Department of Justice said a manager was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the operation of computer chips, the price of Samsung Electronics America Department, has pleaded guilty and will be in prison. The Samsung Corp's marketing manager Thomas - (Thomas Quinn), because the memory chip price manipulation case was sentenced to fourth Samsung Corp managers.

Department of Justice said, he will be in prison for 8 months and fined $250 thousand. He could face up to three years in prison and a greater amount of fines if convicted of a crime before he pleaded guilty. The US government says the conspiracy has raised the price of computers, servers, mobile phones, cameras and game consoles. As a U.S. subsidiary of Samsung, Samsung Semiconductor memory products company vice president of marketing, Quin is one of the main perpetrators of the case.

Ministry of Justice said that during 2001-2002 he together with other people together to control a computer memory chip prices directly affect DELL, HP, IBM, apple computer, Gateway, Sun Microsystems, Compaq, Compaq, which was acquired by HP in 2002. In October 2005, the Samsung Corp has admitted that it was involved in a price fixing and paid a fine of $300 million, making the total fine of $731 million. Four Infineon Corporation managers in 2004 and early modern semiconductor companies have pleaded guilty.