The fix is in: Another Samsung exec falls in DRAM conspiracy

What's a GUP?

Thanks, Einhanderkiller. I meant GPU: Graphical Processing Unit.

Graphics industry? That's small potatoes. The real scam going on is with LCDs. LCDs are entirely a commodity now, present in over a billion cell phones (that's an educated guess, if you know a more accurate number, please share it), tens of millions of iPods (last number I saw was 46 million sold thus far I believe), tens of millions of competing MP3 and personal video players, millions of TVs, digital photo frames, digital cameras, laptops, and the list could go on.

I've put forward the idea that LCD panel manufacturers were price fixing as glaringly obvious several times and people always try to shoot down the idea. Unfortunately for them, the Department of Justice,the Japanese government, Europe, and Korea are siding with me on this one. All of the LCD panel manufacturers have been served papers accusing them of price fixing, and investigations are underway.

Here is a link to a story about it (perhaps Joystiq should report on it too since LCDs affect millions of handheld gaming devices and game display TVs?):
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/12/14/lcd_manufacturers_price_fixing/

It's great that this is being caught, but where are those fines going? Somehow I doubt consumers who overpayed for these commodities will see a refund... and the cycle continues.