The conspiracy was led by high-level executives, and implemented by many of the conspirators' sales account managers for the large computer manufacturers. |
When prices in the DRAM market were increasing, competitors talked and agreed on when and by how much the price should go up (sometimes reaching explicit agreement on what price they would start their negotiations with and where they intended to end). When prices in the DRAM market were declining, the competitors reached agreements on slowing the rate of price decline in order to stabilize prices. |