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SAMSUNG AGREES TO PLEAD GUILTY AND TO PAY $300 MILLION CRIMINAL FINE
FOR ROLE IN PRICE FIXING CONSPIRACY
Korean Company Pays Second Largest Criminal Antitrust Fine in U.S. History

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Samsung Electronics Company Ltd. (Samsung), a Korean
manufacturer of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and its U.S.
subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor Inc., have agreed to plead guilty and
to pay a $300 million fine for participating in an international
conspiracy to fix prices in the DRAM market, the Department of Justice
announced. Samsung?s fine is the second largest criminal antitrust fine
in U.S. history and the largest criminal fine since 1999. ?Price fixing
threatens our free market system, stifles innovation, and robs American
consumers of the benefit of competitive prices,? said Attorney General
Alberto R. Gonzales. ?Today?s guilty plea is evidence of the
Department?s ongoing commitment to protect consumers from corporations
that engage in illegal conduct.? Including today?s charge, three
companies and five individuals have been charged and fines totaling more
that $646 million have resulted from the Department?s ongoing antitrust
investigation into price fixing in the DRAM industry. DRAM is the most
commonly used semiconductor memory product, providing high-speed storage
and retrieval of electronic information for a wide variety of computer,
telecommunication, and consumer electronic products. DRAM is used in
personal computers, laptops, workstations, servers, printers, hard disk
drives, personal digital assistants (PDAs), modems, mobile phones,
telecommunication hubs and routers, digital cameras, video recorders and
TVs, digital set top boxes, game consoles, and digital music players.
There were approximately $7.7 billion in DRAM sales in the United States
in 2004. According to the one-count felony charge filed today in the
U.S. District Court in San Francisco, from April 1, 1999 to June 15,
2002, Samsung and its U.S. subsidiary, Samsung Semiconductor Inc.,
conspired with other DRAM manufacturers to fix the prices of DRAM sold
to certain computer and server manufacturers. The computer makers
directly affected by the price-fixing conspiracy were: Dell Inc., Compaq
Computer Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Apple Computer Inc.,
International Business Machines Corporation, and Gateway Inc. Under the
plea agreement, which must be approved by the court, Samsung has agreed
to cooperate with the government in its ongoing investigation of other
DRAM producers. ?This case demonstrates the need for vigorous antitrust
enforcement in high-technology markets, which is one of the most
important sectors of the American economy,? said Thomas O. Barnett,
Acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Department?s
Antitrust Division. ?This case also illustrates the worldwide scope of
our criminal investigations and exemplifies the need to prosecute and
deter cartels that target American businesses and consumers.? Samsung is
charged with carrying out the conspiracy by: Participating in meetings,
conversations, and communications in the United States and elsewhere
with competitors to discuss the prices of DRAM to be sold to certain
customers;

Agreeing, during those meetings, conversations, and communications, to
charge prices of DRAM at certain levels to be sold to certain customers;

Issuing price quotations in accordance with the agreements reached; and

Exchanging information on sales of DRAM to certain customers for the
purpose of monitoring and enforcing adherence to the agreed-upon prices.

Samsung is the third major semiconductor company, after the Korean
manufacturer Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and the German manufacturer
Infineon Technologies AG, to agree to plead guilty to fixing DRAM
prices. In May 2005, Hynix pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a
$185 million criminal fine. In October 2004, Infineon pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to pay $160 million criminal fine. In December 2004, four
Infineon executives, T. Rudd Corwin, Peter Schaefer, Gunter Hefner, and
Heinrich Florian, pleaded guilty to the DRAM price-fixing conspiracy.
All four Infineon employees served prison terms ranging from four to six
months and each has paid a $250,000 fine. Three of the charged Infineon
employees are German citizens. In December 2003, the Department charged
Alfred P. Censullo, a Regional Sales Manager for Micron Technology Inc.,
with obstruction of justice in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1503. Censullo
pleaded guilty to the charge and admitted to having withheld and altered
documents responsive to a grand jury subpoena served on Micron in June
2002. Censullo was sentenced to serve six months of home detention.
Today?s charge is the result of an ongoing investigation being conducted
by the Antitrust Division?s San Francisco Field Office and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation in San Francisco. Anyone with information
concerning price-fixing in the DRAM industry should contact the San
Francisco Field Office of the Antitrust Division at (415) 436-6660 or
the San Francisco Division of the FBI at (415) 553-7400.

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