The international conspiracy to fix memory prices uncovered in 2002 was real after all. Samsung, the world's biggest memory maker, has agreed to <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5894862.html?tag=zdnn.alert">pay $300 million and plead guilty</A> for conspiring with others to fix prices on Dynamic Random Access Memory, or DRAM, the most common form of memory found in computers. Hynix, another South Korean memory manufacturer, earlier pleaded guilty and paid a $185 million fine. Germany's Infineon Technologies also admitted to DRAM price fixing and paid a fine, although other defendants remain. Samsung's fine is the second-largest criminal antitrust fine in U.S. history and the largest criminal fine since 1999.