Samsung too much negative news Apple abandoned a $3 billion 800 million cooperative plan

According to South Korean media reported on 16, due to the recent emergence of a lot of negative news Samsung Electronics, Apple Com puter Inc has abandoned its joint investment of $3 billion 800 million to produce a flash memory chip program.

A Samsung executive said, according to Apple's plans, the second half of this year will buy Samsung yield of 40%, Apple had suggested the two sides to jointly invest for the production of NAND flash memory chip MP3 player, but recently because Samsung is affected by negative pressure from many aspects, apple stopped Samsung plans to and another maker of memory chips to discuss the matter, hope in the United States joint production of flash memory chips.

Samsung Corp has been caught up in a scandal. At the beginning of October, 2 executives of Samsung convicted, purchased a majority stake in group chairman in 1996 on charges of conspiracy to help the group of children at below market prices. Last week, Samsung teamed up again because of several other major producers of DRAM chips to push high memory chip prices in the United States, was sentenced to pay a fine of $300 million, the antitrust fine in the history of the United States ranked second, 5 Samsung executives jailed. The Justice Department said last week, has mastered the evidence shows that, during 1999~2002, Samsung, Hynix, Infineon and Micron Technology Inc. (MicronTechnologyInc) and other chip manufacturers have jointly negotiate prices of DRAM chips, to offer the customer consistent, and exchange of sales data, and monitoring each other to comply with the agreement. DRAM chips in the global annual sales of more than 26 billion U.S. dollars, the company is currently facing the demand for compensation from computer manufacturers and consumers, the amount of up to hundreds of millions of dollars.