China may be opening an investigation into potential DRAM and NAND price fixing by manufacturers. Some believe that companies are even holding back production to keep profits high and memory supplies tight despite higher demand. The country’s National Development and Reform Commission’s Pricing Supervision Department would be responsible for looking into such allegations.



China’s economic regulator is paying close attention to a recent surge in the price of mobile phone storage chips and could look into possible price fixing by the firms that make them, a senior official told the state-run China Daily newspaper. The newspaper, citing an official with the National Development and Reform Commission’s Pricing Supervision Department, said the NDRC was alerted to the situation after a sharp rise in the price of chips over the last 18 months.

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