Apple products introduced during the September 2001-December 2006 time-frame may have been impacted by an LCD vendor’s attempt to illegally “price fix” its screens.
Chi Mei Optoelectronics, a Taiwanese maker of TFT-LCDs (thin-film transistor-liquid crystal displays), has agreed to plead guilty and pay $220 million in fines for its role in an international conspiracy to fix LCD prices, the US Department of Justice has confirmed (as reported by Computerworld).
The company is accused of participating in a conspiracy to fix LCD prices between September 2001 and December 2006, the DOJ said in a press release. The firm has agreed to cooperate with the investigation.
Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard were all impacted by the conspiracy, which has seen six company’s plead guilty of their involvement, generating fines in ex
