Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!neoucom!wtm
From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ram Chips...
Summary: the switch to 1 megabit chips
Keywords: Cost, Price, OHMYGOD!, IThinkI'mGonnaBarf
Message-ID: <1201@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 14:12:39 GMT
References: <724@csm9a.UUCP> <10934@steinmetz.ge.com>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Lines: 13


George Morrow recently pointed out that part of the DRAM shortage
has been brought about by chage-over to 1 megabit chip prodcution,
thus there isn't enough capacity to meet the dmand for the 256K
form factor.  Anybody that is jumping on the manufacturing band
wagon right now is opting to produce 1 megabit parts, so there
isn't likely to be much relaxation of the 256K part shortage until
the majority of board makers switch to using 1 meg parts.

Sounds like a reasonable explanation to me.  It is irksome that 256K
120 nS RAM that was going for $3.65 each in March of 1987  cost me
$13.95 last week.  Reaganomics!

--Bill