Samsung Semi boss gets 10 months in clink

He admitted to a federal court he had helped engage in a price fixing scam, the Journal said. He is not the first Samsung exec to be convicted of price fixing.

But he is the most senior. He will be in jail for 10 months. The Journal reckons he is the fifth Samsung guy to go down.

No wonder the Department of Justice (DoJ) is interested in SRAM, and the rest. Korean firm Hynix, Japanese firm Elpida, and others are implicated after PC OEMs like Dell, HP and others including Gateway complained about a possible cartel, as reported earlier.

The DoJ has so far collected three quarter of a billion dollars in fines over DRAM price fixing. Puffed up by its own success, it now is investigating SRAM firms and graphics firms, like Nvidia and ATI as was, as well. We wonder if Park will be allowed to have a cigarette or two in a Federal Gaol [No, Ed.]. µ

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