" Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today filed a federal lawsuit charging leading manufacturers of computer memory chips with price-fixing.
" New York's lawsuit charges that beginning in approximately 1998, the chip manufacturers made a secret agreement to raise the prices of their memory chips, known in the industry as 'dynamic random access memory chips' or 'DRAM.' DRAM chips are used to hold data and temporary instructions available for quick access while the computer or other digital product is in use. Many of the chips are sold to computer manufacturers, known in the industry as original equipment manufacturers or 'OEMs,' for use in computers and other products...
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