Re: [Sheflug] memory prices

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On 25 Jan 2001 11:53:04 +0000, wulfie wrote:
> 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 :)


Hmmm :(


> 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.


It'll be interesting to see what Intel do over the P4 - they're not
scheduled to have an SD-RAM capable chipset 'til the end of this year,
or something. I can't see the P4 taking of unless RDRAM becomes a lot
cheaper. 

Cheers,

Alex.
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