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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1 Megabit DRAMs
Message-ID: <2272@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Aug-87 17:51:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 27 17:51:23 1987
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in article <3831@well.UUCP>, spg@well.UUCP (Stephen P. Grant) says:
> Keywords: cost

> What this means is that everyone making memory boards will
> have to raise their prices significantly.  And this was done to protect
> American DRAM manufacturers (currently 1, Micron Technologies).  Let's
> here it for FREE TRADE!

I'd be surprised if most hardware manufacturers didn't see think kind of
thing coming a mile away.  Unfortunately, the US Government doesn't really
understand the issues all that well.  The IC vendors are organized enough
as a special interest to grab the government's attention.  The significantly
larger section of the US electronics industry that USES these parts (like
yours and mine), isn't as well organized, apparently.  So I guess we all
know the advantages of getting organized.  

By the way, TI still makes DRAMs too.  Though they claim they don't make any
money on them, they just use the mass production of parts for perfecting the
DRAM technology for use in more complicated parts.  Funny, that's just what
the Japanese claim to be doing.  That tells me that anyone really trying to
make big bucks on DRAMs alone is very foolish.  Or should base themselves
in the US and spend lots of cash on the IC industry lobbying efforts.

> Steve Grant
> Engineering Manager
> Access Associates
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