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RE: RAM prices (was:CD-ROM )

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Vincent Janelle (malokai@gildea.net)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:38:07 -0700 (PDT)


Ram prices started going up before the earthquake.

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On Sun, 26 Sep 1999, Randall Clark wrote:

>
> You will find that since Taiwan had their earthquake, RAM was gone up
> everywhere. You will not find a better price.

---- I said ----

> There's a whole bunch of issues as to why ram is so expensive. Most of it
> just has to do with the fact that they paid something like $4 billion for
> the plant, and they need to make the money back on it :P Also, they're
> making the transition from PC100 ram to PC133 ram, and ramping down the
> development of RAMBus.
>
> Its also september, and back to school means more profits.
>


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