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InternetNews April 21, 2005 Roy Mark	Hynix Cops Guilty Plea in DRAM Debacle Korean chipmaker agrees to third-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history in RAM chips price-fixing conspiracy.
InternetNews December 1, 2005 Roy Mark	Samsung Pleads Guilty to Price Fixing Korean electronics giant Samsung agrees to pay second-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history.
InternetNews October 13, 2005 Roy Mark	Price-Fixing Costs Samsung $300M The Korean chip giant is latest DRAM maker to plead guilty in US courts to its role in a global price-fixing conspiracy. The size of the fine is historic in proportion. Infineon and Hynix had already plead guilty to similar charges.
InternetNews January 30, 2006 David Needle	Elpida to Plead Guilty to Price Fixing The latest chapter of an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into price fixing in the dynamic random access memory market has resulted in Japanese manufacturer Elipida forking over an $84 million fine.
InternetNews March 22, 2006 Roy Mark	DRAM Slam: Prison Time For Samsung Execs Three more executives in the dynamic random access memory chip industry are heading to prison for their roles in a global price-fixing conspiracy.
InternetNews December 2, 2004 Michael Singer	Infineon Execs Plead Guilty to Price-Fixing Four Infineon executives agreed to plead guilty to charges they conspired to fix prices in the computer memory sector, officials said Thursday.
InternetNews October 19, 2006 Roy Mark	More Indictments in DRAM Price-Fixing Probe Two former Samsung officials and a former Hynix executive are the latest to be charged in the Department of Justice's ongoing investigation into a DRAM chip price-fixing conspiracy.
InternetNews December 21, 2006 David Needle	Samsung Exec Pleads Guilty in DRAM Probe Prison time for Young Hwan Park in computer memory price-fixing case.
InternetNews March 1, 2006 Roy Mark	Hynix Execs Head For Jail in DRAM Scandal Four Korean Hynix executives are heading to a U.S. jail for their roles in a global conspiracy to fix prices on dynamic random access memory, a key type of memory found in most PCs.
InternetNews September 22, 2006 Clint Boulton	Samsung Exec's DRAM Guilt Leads to Jail The Department of Justice this week said an executive from Samsung Semiconductor pled guilty and will go to jail for joining a global conspiracy to fix DRAM prices. Thomas Quinn will serve eight months, pay a $250,000 fine and help the Justice Department in the DRAM case.
InternetNews November 16, 2006 David Needle	Another Guilty Plea in DRAM Price Fixing Scandal The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that a former executive of Elpida Memory, a large Japanese manufacturer of DRAM chips, agreed to plead guilty for his participation in a global conspiracy to fix prices.
InternetNews September 5, 2006 Roy Mark	Sun, Unisys Sue Hynix Over DRAM After negotiating a plea bargain with the U.S. Department of Justice and a $185 million fine last year for its role in a global price-fixing scandal, Hynix was sued Friday in civil court by Sun Microsystems and Unisys.
InternetNews April 10, 2007 Roy Mark	Not Enough Memory in DRAM Suit Sun Microsystems and Unisys' civil lawsuit against Hynix and other dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chipmakers is dead. At least for now.
InternetNews December 1, 2006 Roy Mark	DoJ Issues Subpoena to Nvidia Nvidia said today the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating possible antitrust violations at the world's third-largest maker of computer graphics chips.
InternetNews October 31, 2006 Roy Mark	Sony Hit With SRAM Subpoena Sony Corp. joined a growing list of static random access memory chipmakers touched by a Department of Justice antitrust investigation.
InternetNews September 16, 2004 Michael Singer	Infineon Price-Fixing Probe Tip of Iceberg? DRAM computer memory makers point fingers while the U.S. Justice Department's investigation continues.
InternetNews July 14, 2006 Ed Sutherland	34 States Hit Chipmakers With Price-Fixing Suits Seven computer memory chip makers, including Micron Technologies and Infineon Technologies, face price-fixing charges lodged by 34 states.
The Motley Fool December 6, 2004 Rich Duprey	Infineon Executives Pay High Price Four officers from the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) maker go to prison for their role in a price-fixing scheme. The company and its stock have been in the doldrums, though the stock price has rebounded some 20% from its summer lows.
InternetNews January 2, 2004 Michael Singer	DOJ May Settle with Memory Chip Maker Micron Technologies' possible amnesty deal with the Department of Justice is a boon to rival Rambus.
InternetNews April 27, 2005 Michael Singer	Is Rambus Right About Collusion? Rambus claims even more legal victories in the wake of last week's admission by Hynix.
InternetNews March 21, 2005 Michael Singer	Infineon, Rambus Lay Lawsuits to Rest The two chip companies issued a statement Monday saying they've cleared all outstanding litigation between them.
InternetNews April 20, 2006 Roy Mark	School Official Hit With E-Rate Fraud Charge A former South Carolina school technology director is facing charges she committed mail and wire fraud in a scheme to defraud the federal E-rate program that helps schools and libraries connect to the Internet.
The Motley Fool July 21, 2004 Rich Duprey	Infineon Does Infinitely Better The computer chip manufacturer sees sales surge, though antitrust woes throw it for a loss. Now it only remains to keep the lawyers out of the mix for shareholders to be able to realize their full profit potential.
InternetNews January 19, 2005 Roy Mark	DOJ Scores First Criminal P2P Convictions The U.S. Department of Justice bagged its first-ever criminal convictions for peer-to-peer copyright theft Tuesday when two men arrested in last summer's Operation Digital Gridlock pleaded guilty.
InternetNews February 27, 2004 Michael Singer	Antitrust Case Fuels DRAM Price Fixing Probe A federal case dismissed against Rambus opens a door for a price-fixing probe involving other DRAM manufacturers.
InternetNews March 3, 2005 Michael Singer	Court Denies Rambus Patent Claim Again The case against Infineon relates to SDRAM and DDR DRAM memory products.
InternetNews June 30, 2005 Roy Mark	DOJ Hits Warez Networks Federal agents launch 70 raids aimed at first providers of illegally distributed copyrighted works. The arrested were all active on warez networks that distribute the copies illegally through the Internet.
InternetNews August 6, 2004 Michael Singer	Infineon Expands Asian Production Taiwan's Winbond Electronics helps out with 200mm and 300mm wafer production of DRAM chips.
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 Bettina Wassener	Time For Infineon To Forget Memory Chips? German chipmaker Infineon Technologies, lacking the scale and lower costs of its rivals, may tighten its focus.
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Michael Singer	DDR2 Held Up By Rambus' Legal Woes Analysts are concerned DDR2 makers working with Rambus are using the company's fight against Infineon to delay paying licensing fees.
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Michael Singer	Rambus Accuses Rivals of Price Fixing The $1 billion claim that Hynix, Infineon, Micron, Siemens forced RDRAM out of the market has some overlap with the Justice Department's own collusion investigation.
InternetNews January 7, 2004 Michael Singer	Infineon Joins Flash Memory Melee The German chipmaker jumps into a profitable but potentially volatile market that is teeming with competitors.
The Motley Fool March 22, 2005 Rich Duprey	Rambus Rams Home a Victory The chip designer settles a long-running lawsuit with arch-rival Infineon Technologies. Rambus' stockholders were elated, as they have been with each victory the company has scored, and pushed their shares 30% higher.
InternetNews August 25, 2004 Roy Mark	DOJ Raids Private P2P Operation Authorities raided five residences and and an Internet service provider Wednesday morning in the first federal criminal enforcement action against private peer-to-peer networks.
CFO April 1, 2003 Kris Frieswick	Fraud Squad Federal investigators are on a crusade to elevate corporate misdeeds to criminal offenses.
IEEE Spectrum January 2009 John Blau	Germany's DRAM Bailout The state of Saxony's risky rescue of European DRAM maker Qimonda
InternetNews March 26, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Will Rambus' Big Win Hold Up? Court rules Rambus did not hide patent applications from a standards body. Now the appeals begin.
InternetNews March 3, 2006 Ed Sutherland	NewProbe of Online Music Underway The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed that the department's antitrust unit is looking into the four largest record labels and possible "uncompetitive practices" of music download pricing.
InternetNews March 26, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Mom, Apple Pie and Microsoft Redmond's appeal of the EU judgment could hinge on nationalistic arguments -- and pressure from the White House.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2009 Anders Bylund	Nokia Sues the Entire LCD Industry The Finnish mobile phone giant is suing an entire industry for 10 years of price-fixing.
InternetNews August 16, 2007 Roy Mark	IBM, PWC Settle Kickback Charges IBM and PriceWaterhouseCoopers agreed today to pay $5.9 million to settle allegations that the companies made illegal kickbacks to obtain government technology contracts.
InternetNews January 28, 2004 Erin Joyce	The Smallest Tech for the Empire State Infineon leads a $12 million nanotech project for next-generation DRAM in upstate New York.
InternetNews February 4, 2009 Andy Patrizio	Memory Glut Claims Its First Big Victim Infineon subsidiary Qimonda will shut its last U.S. plant and put 1,500 people out of work. Will more dominoes fall?
InternetNews November 28, 2007	Samsung Predicts End of DRAM Oversupply Samsung Electronics said the oversupply of memory chips used in personal computers was expected to ease in 2008 as growing demand for portable gadgets prompts a shift in production to Flash chips.
The Motley Fool March 26, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Infineon Loses a Winner After Ulrich Schumacher had just pulled the world's third-largest DRAM maker through billions of cost cutting and straight to profitability, he resigns as the CEO of the world's No. 6 chip maker.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2004 Rich Duprey	Elpida Memory IPO a Risk The DRAM chip maker is set to go public next month. Though Elpida Memory is Japan's sole dedicated manufacturer of the chips and it seeks to gain enough market share to take over the No. 3 position, U.S. investors should not get too excited about the spinoff just yet.
InternetNews November 16, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft Looks to Buddy List in EU Spat Microsoft called on other companies to weigh in with U.S. Department of Justice.
InternetNews April 20, 2011	Novell Patent Deal Adjusted by Dept. of Justice From the blogs: U.S. Department of Justice wades into Novell patent sale to protect the open source market.
Information Today June 17, 2013 Nancy K. Herther	Apple Gambles on Winning Ebook Antitrust Suit The U.S. Department of Justice came out swinging in its opening statement of its antitrust suit against Apple in New York on June 3, 2013.
The Motley Fool January 2, 2011 Gabriel Perna	Slow Growth Ahead in Semiconductors Things could ramp down after a record 2010, according to a report.