> What in the world does a 20-year-old scheme and prosecution have to do with it?

My point is that we don’t know for sure. DRAM manufacturers have admitted to price fixing previously, and it’s the exact same companies that produce RAM today.

If you search for “price fixing cases in hardware”, you will find plenty of guilty pleads from other/unrelated HW companies that are more recent. Price fixing happens and sometimes they even get caught doing it ;)

> Think about it for a minute: how would price fixing even work?

In the past, it worked by manufacturers collectively agreeing on price quotes and margins IIUC.

I’m not claiming any foul play. I’m saying we can’t know for sure and it’s happened before.