NIALL E. LYNCH (State Bar No. 157959)

RICHARD B. COHEN (State Bar No. 79601)

EUGENE S. LITVINOFF (State Bar No. 214318)

NATHANAEL M. COUSINS (State Bar No. 177944)

Antitrust Division

U.S. Department of Justice

450 Golden Gate Avenue

Box 36046, Room 10-0101

San Francisco, CA 94102

Telephone: (415) 436-6660

Attorneys for the United States

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA	)	No. CR
)

)	INFORMATION

v.	)

)

)	VIOLATION:

INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG,	)	Title 15, United States Code,

)	Section 1 (Price Fixing)

)

Defendant.	)

____________________________________)	San Francisco Venue

The United States of America, acting through its attorneys, charges:

I.

DESCRIPTION OF THE OFFENSE

1.	INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG ("INFINEON") is made a defendant on the charge stated below.

2.	From on or about July 1, 1999 until on or about June 15, 2002, defendant INFINEON and its coconspirators, entered into and engaged in a combination and conspiracy in the United States and elsewhere to suppress and eliminate competition by fixing the prices of Dynamic Random Access Memory ("DRAM") to be sold to certain original equipment manufacturers of personal computers and servers ("OEMs"). The combination and conspiracy engaged in by the defendant and its coconspirators was in unreasonable restraint of interstate and foreign trade and commerce in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. § 1).

3.	The charged combination and conspiracy consisted of a continuing agreement, understanding, and concert of action among the defendant and its coconspirators, the substantial terms of which were to agree to fix the prices for DRAM to be sold to certain OEMs.

4.	For the purpose of forming and carrying out the charged combination and conspiracy, the defendant and its coconspirators did those things that they combined and conspired to do, including, among other things:

(a)	participating in meetings, conversations, and communications in the United States and elsewhere to discuss the prices of DRAM to be sold to certain OEMs;

(b)	agreeing, during those meetings, conversations, and communications, to charge prices of DRAM at certain levels to be sold to certain OEMs;

(c)	issuing price quotations in accordance with the agreements reached; and

(d)	exchanging information on sales of DRAM to certain OEM customers, for the purpose of monitoring and enforcing adherence to the agreed-upon prices.

II.

DEFENDANT AND COCONSPIRATORS

5.	INFINEON is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. During the period covered by this Information, INFINEON was engaged in the business of producing and, through INFINEON's subsidiaries, including INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES NORTH AMERICA, selling DRAM to customers in the United States and elsewhere.

6.	Various corporations and individuals, not made defendants in this Information, participated as coconspirators in the offense charged in this Information and performed acts and made statements in furtherance of it.

7.	Whenever in this Information reference is made to any act, deed, or transaction of any corporation, the allegation means that the corporation engaged in the act, deed, or transaction by or through its officers, directors, employees, agents, or other representatives while they were actively engaged in the management, direction, control, or transaction of its business or affairs.

III.

TRADE AND COMMERCE

8.	DRAM is the most commonly used semiconductor memory product. DRAM provides high-speed storage and retrieval of electronic information in personal computers, servers and other devices. All references to DRAM in this Information include semiconductor memory devices and modules.

9.	During the period covered by this Information, the defendant and its coconspirators sold and distributed DRAM in a continuous and uninterrupted flow of interstate and foreign trade and commerce to customers located in states or countries other than the states or countries in which the defendant and its coconspirators produced DRAM. The OEMs that were affected by the conspiracy to suppress and eliminate competition were: Dell Inc., Compaq Computer Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Apple Computer, Inc., International Business Machines Corporation and Gateway, Inc.

10.	The business activities of the defendant and its coconspirators that are the subject of this Information were within the flow of, and substantially affected, interstate and foreign trade and commerce.

IV.

JURISDICTION AND VENUE

11.	The combination and conspiracy charged in this Information was carried out, in part, in the Northern District of California, within the five years preceding the filing of this Information.

ALL IN VIOLATION OF TITLE 15, UNITED STATES CODE, SECTION 1.

___________/s/________________	_________/s/_______________

R. Hewitt Pate	Phillip H. Warren

Assistant Attorney General	Chief, San Francisco Office

__________/s/_________________	_________/s/_______________

James M. Griffin	Niall E. Lynch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General	Richard B. Cohen

Eugene S. Litvinoff

Nathanael M. Cousins

Attorneys

U.S. Department of Justice

_________/s/__________________	Antitrust Division

Scott D. Hammond	450 Golden Gate Ave.

Director of Criminal Enforcement	Box 36046, Room 10-0101

San Francisco, CA 94102

United States Department of Justice	(415) 436-6660

Antitrust Division

_________/s/__________________

Kevin V. Ryan

United States Attorney

Northern District of California