Seoul, June 30 -- A proposed US class-action lawsuit has been filed against the world's three largest memory chipmakers, according to a news report by The Korea Herald. The legal challenge accuses Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, and Micron Technology of restricting the supply of dynamic random-access memory, commonly known as DRAM, during their structural shift toward AI-focused hardware.

As per the news report, 17 plaintiffs, consisting of individual consumers and small businesses, filed the complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California last week.

The lawsuit alleges that these three companies, which control roughly 90 per cent of the global DRAM market, deliberately curbed the production of conventional mem...