Competition record
Infineon
Deep profile · 1 linked library matter
Infineon is a German chip company that later spun its memory business into Qimonda. In the DRAM cartel the library records EU fines over €331 million and states that Infineon executives were imprisoned in the US case.
Overview
Infineon Technologies is a German semiconductor company. In the cartel years it made DRAM, the main memory in computers, as well as other chips. It later spun the memory division into Qimonda. The DRAM cases concern the years before that spin, 1998 to 2002, when Infineon was still selling the memory.
Memory makers coordinated prices charged to computer manufacturers. The European Commission's fines totaled more than €331 million. In the United States the same conduct was charged criminally. The library's outcome line states that Infineon executives were imprisoned in the US case.
The library status is fined. This profile does not say how much of the €331 million was Infineon's. Hynix is another memory maker in the same EU file. Qimonda is the later memory company, not a separate cartel defendant in this id.
Competition footprint
DRAM sold to PC and server makers is the product that was coordinated.
EU fines over €331 million are the European total, not an Infineon-only assignment.
US imprisonment of Infineon executives is the criminal outcome the library records for this firm.
Consumer & business angle
Computer makers paid for memory, and people buying PCs bought the end product.
Hynix and the other DRAM suppliers were the coordinating rivals.
What to watch
- How the US prison terms are described when the EU fine total is cited beside them.
- Qimonda's history as the spun-out memory business, which is corporate aftermath rather than a second cartel.
Markets
semiconductors · DRAM · DRAM semiconductors · computer memory
Also known as: infineon technologies