Samsung was the main focus of a DRAM cartel which was in operation between 1 July 1998 and 15 June 2002. It involved a network of contacts and sharing of secret information, mostly on a bilateral basis, through which they coordinated the price levels and quotations for DRAMs (Dynamic Random Access Memory), sold to major PC or server original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in the EEA. DRAMs is a common model for "dynamic" semiconductor memories for personal computers (PCs), servers and workstations.
In late 1999/early 2000 I worked for Apple when we were releasing the first generation iBooks. We sold out of them the first week and could not fill orders for the next few months. Samsung claimed at the time it was due to a Taiwanese earthquake which killed more than 1,700 people and injured more than 100,000, which dried up the DRAM supply. It turns out that was not the case. Samsung used this disaster to put a world-wide choke hold on DRAM prices
Six years later in October 2005, Samsung pleaded guilty to fix the price of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. Samsung was fined $300 million, the second largest antitrust penalty in US history. They also paid hundreds of millions of dollars to other countries in their lawsuits as well.
If you want to support a company who uses deadly global disasters to gouge international companies and their consumers then by all means support them with blind eyes and mouths open. Plus I shouldn't have to mention they have had to pay millions of dollars to other countries for violations of labor rights laws and hiring children.
But then again it's all just business, right
So you don't own any Apple product that have Samsung parts now?
