South Korean antitrust authorities may investigate Samsung and modern semiconductor

Day ago, South Korea antitrust regulators said that if Samsung and Hynix Semiconductor Company "for the price control chip to the local market, the Department will carry out investigation and evidence collection. In a radio interview, South Korea's Fair Trade Commission Secretary General Hur Seon revealed the above information. In fact, so far the four officials of the modern semiconductor, has been sentenced to the United States Department of justice, and was arrested on charges of alleged control of the global chip market price system. Hyundai is currently the world's second largest DRAM memory manufacturer, is also suspected of illegal control of the global market pricing of the company's fourth, has now been fined $731 million. In 2002, the U.S. Department of justice officially opened for investigation of modern electronic, is the cause of a number of us chipmaker said that in 1999, suspected of joining the DRAM modern electronic chip market price control illegal plot. As the world's largest manufacturer of DRAM memory, Samsung in November last year by the court fined $300 million. The other two companies suspected of controlling the price, including Infineon Techololgies AG, was fined $160 million, while Japan's Elpida Memory was fined $84 million. And because of the effective coordination of the investigation, Micron company to avoid a direct penalty court.