Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!oliveb!pyramid!prls!philabs!sbcs!root
From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Ram Chips...
Summary: Ram shortage, shades of gray
Keywords: Cost, Price, OHMYGOD!, IThinkI'mGonnaBarf
Message-ID: <1300@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 26 May 88 21:06:47 GMT
References: <724@csm9a.UUCP> <1294@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <168@kesmai.COM>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
Lines: 30

In article <168@kesmai.COM>, dca@kesmai.COM (David C. Albrecht) writes:
> In article <1294@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) writes:
> > 	
> Oh come on.  Aren't you being just a tad bit naive blaming this all on the
	
	Read the posting again.  Think I covered most of the players, 
	blamewise.  No, it isn't just US Gov't screwups but their gloves
	are far from white, Dave.

> Sounds like some people being caught flat footed to me.
> More likely what we are seeing is an unfortunate outgrowth of the cyclical
> nature of the semi-conducter market which periodically blooms so that everyone
> ramps up production and then goes bust.  Since new production lines are very
> expensive and take time to get going, apparently the usual approach is to
> upgrade lines.  Those neat new 1MBits are stealing lines from the old 256Kbits

	This doesn't explain why prices on 8Kx8, 32Kx8 statics are going
	up, why the cost of 1 mBit DRAMS has gone from ~$18 to $40-$60 or
	more, etc.  And now that the shiny new 4 mBitx1's are just heading
	out the door they will begin stealing lines from the once neat new
	1 mBitx1's, right?  No, sorry I have to disagree.  What has happened
	to the DRAM market is not just supply and demand.

> etc.  In general, the growth in memory on computers and the popularity of
> computers has made demand outstrip supply.
> 
> David Albrecht

					Rick Spanbauer
					SUNY/Stony Brook