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Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft due to data center noise — plaintiffs also mention construction noise and extreme light pollution

Rebecca Payne Jul 1, 2026 An antitrust lawsuit has been filed in California alleging that three chipmakers have engaged in collusion and price-fixing, amid a global shortage of memory chips that is driving up prices for manufacturers and consumers. The class-action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against chip giants Samsung, SK Hynix and Micro

Samsung, Micron, SK Hynix face class-action lawsuit over alleged 700% DRAM price inflation Seventeen plaintiffs accuse the three companies controlling 90% of the global DRAM market of coordinating sup

Hardware Memory Memory crisis heads to court: Class-action lawsuit calls Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron DRAM market 'oligopolists', alleging anticompetitive behavior News By Jess Kinghorn Published June 29, 2026 'No outsider can expand output to undercut them.' (Image credit: SeongJoon Cho / Bloomberg via Getty Images (left) | JHVEPhoto via Getty Images (middle) | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via

[News] Samsung, SK hynix, Micron Face U.S. Class-Action Lawsuit Over Alleged DRAM Supply Manipulation 2026-06-29 Semiconductors editor News Please note that this article cites information from IT Chosun, Wccftech, and The Biz. The world’s three largest memory chipmakers—Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron—are facing a U.S. class-action lawsuit. According to IT Chosun, 17 U.S. consumers allege

Given the sheer scale of disruption emanating from the ongoing global memory 'chipflation,' it was only a matter of time before the so-called 'Big Three' - Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron - were dragged into a courtroom on allegations of collusion and price-fixing, as appears to have happened last week, just as Apple cited soaring memory prices for implementing a slew of price hikes.