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Harondel J. Sibble (help@pdscc.com)
Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:17:07 -0700
Not quite, wholesale pricesd on ram have been going up slowly since late
july, its only since the earthquake thats it really made a big jump
many of the ram fabs as of 2 days ago still didn't have power to run their
equip, other than backup generators which last maybe 2 or 3 days.
plus with some of the ovens that the chips are baked in, if they cool down
due to lack of power, it can take up to a week plus to get them running
again, plus the oven manufacturer has to send a tech team out to get it back
online...
plus relatively speaking, ram is dirt cheap even with the higher prices,
remember $50/mb? not so long ago....
On 26 Sep 99, at 12:59, Vincent Janelle wrote:
> 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.
Harondel J. Sibble
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