Comment by ameasure

Hynix (2nd largest memory chip maker after Samsung) and friends were fined just a couple years ago for price fixing memory, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10126755. If competition isn't a problem, why waste money on costly innovation?

Reminds me of Eastman Kodak circa 1975 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_Kodak#Shift_to_digital.

That said, this is pretty weak evidence of collusion.