Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron face antitrust class action lawsuit
Key takeaways
- The case has been assigned to Judge Noel Wise, according to Appleworld.today.
- Prices for commodity DRAM have climbed approximately 700% over a four-year span, a rise the plaintiffs attribute directly to the alleged supply manipulation, according to Appleworld.today.
- The lawsuit aims to represent a broader class of consumers and businesses that purchased products containing commodity DRAM during the price surge, according to Wccftech.
Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron face antitrust class action lawsuit Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron face antitrust class action lawsuit · Quartz · Bloomberg / Getty Images Cris Tolomia Mon, June 29, 2026 at 8:19 PM GMT+7 2 min read 005930.KS 000660.KS MU Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology were sued on June 25 in federal court over allegations of collusion and price-fixing in the commodity memory market.
Filed in the Northern District of California, the complaint names 17 plaintiffs — a mix of individuals and small businesses — who claim the three chipmakers conspired to keep commodity DRAM artificially scarce in order to inflate prices, according to Wccftech. The case has been assigned to Judge Noel Wise, according to Appleworld.today.
At the heart of the complaint is an accusation that all three companies exploited the industry's transition to High-Bandwidth Memory — a chip architecture central to AI workloads — as a pretext for winding down output of legacy formats including DDR3 and DDR4, according to Wccftech. Prices for commodity DRAM have climbed approximately 700% over a four-year span, a rise the plaintiffs attribute directly to the alleged supply manipulation, according to Appleworld.today.