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From: oconnor@sungoddess.steinmetz (Dennis M. O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ram Chips...
Keywords: Cost, Price, OHMYGOD!, IThinkI'mGonnaBarf
Message-ID: <10934@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 23 May 88 13:39:36 GMT
References: <724@csm9a.UUCP>
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Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center
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An article by root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) says:
] In article <724@csm9a.UUCP>, ngorelic@csm9a.UUCP (Noel Gorelick) writes:
] >[...] can't afford $500/meg [...] doesn't appear to be going down [...]
]
] 	First thing I would do is write a letter to the US Gov't expressing
] 	your concern about how they have messed up [...] to TI and perhaps
]       Micron Technology thanking them for their lobbying efforts and
]       helping raise semiconductor prices [...] a line to Toshiba,
]       Nec, etc thanking them for dumping 256K chips [...] letters to
]       the media for publishing all the hype about Toshiba. 
[...]
] 	As pointed out on BIX, even Tokoyo parts houses are short on 
] 	256K's.  It was said that sources are drying up even in Korea..
] 
] 						Rick Spanbauer
] 						SUNY/Stony Brook

 ( Gee, does no one remember when $10K for a meg was a good deal ? )

 According to the electronics trade press, the current DRAM crisis
 has relatively simple roots : after the industry-wide depression,
 there just isn't enough production capability left to satisfy
 the current high demand for DRAMs. So prices have of course
 gone up : that's simple supply-and-demand economics.

 Maybe we Amigans should blame it on RAM-hungry operating systems,
 like OS/2 and the MacII ? ;-)

 By the end of this year, the DRAM shortage should abate, as new
 production facilities both in the US and abroad are brought
 up to full capability.
--
 Dennis O'Connor   oconnor%sungod@steinmetz.UUCP  ARPA: OCONNORDM@ge-crd.arpa
    "The object of socialization is to teach wolves that they are sheep."