Judge Noël Wise found buyers plausibly alleged a conspiracy to restrict conventional memory chip supply, distinguishing the Ninth Circuit's 2022 DRAM II ruling.
A federal judge on Nov. 14 declined to dismiss a proposed class action accusing Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron of conspiring to restrict the supply of conventional dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, the chips that provide temporary, high-speed data storage in computers, phones and servers.
U.S. District Judge Noël Wise of the Northern District of California denied the companies' joint motion to dismiss, finding the complaint plausibly alleged an agreement in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. The allegations, accepted as true at this stage, have not been proven.
