Report: Chinese government investigating possible NAND price fixing
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Building a machine in 2017 was painful. Here at the end of the year, we're looking at average per-gigabyte SSD prices that are the same or even higher than they were a year ago. It's a frustrating situation. According to the state-run China Daily newspaper, that nation's National Development and Reform Commission is getting fed up with NAND chip prices as well. The paper quotes an official with the NDRC who says that the commission "will pay more attention to future problems that may be caused by 'price fixing'" in the memory market.
