Re: [Sheflug] memory prices

["wulfie" <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

choose from : (a) a fire at an epoxy resin plant in Japan (2) price rises as
profit protection by Taiwanese mfrs (3) near next Xmas :)

Unless Rambus memory gets some very heavy price cutting (read: increased
yield per wafer and less blatant profiteering) SDRAM will be king of the
hill for a while yet, especially since PC133 is now becoming the de-facto
standard.

Paul.


> Truly, my flabber has been ghasted. I think maybe it's time to upgrade
> the P166+ 48Mb RAM 'main desktop & development' machine I have :)
>
> Even at work, I only have 128Mb.
>
> So, how long do we think this is going to last? What's more, what's
> going to happen when RDRAM starts coming down? (As it surely must do
> when Intel ramp up P4 units)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alex.




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