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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DRAM Price
Message-ID: <2760@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 90 02:27:01 GMT
References: <12564282123019@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <40970043@hpindda.HP.COM> <602@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
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In article <602@marvin.moncam.co.uk>, Elbereth@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson) writes:
> > In article <40970043@hpindda.HP.COM> kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery) writes:
>>>> Does anyone have a reasonable forecast on how low the price for 1 Meg, 100
> 
> 
> You're not that far out, but the reason the Japanese have slowed production
> of 1Mb DRAMs has less to do with nobbling the competition, and more to do
> with promoting sales of 4Mb DRAMs - a method of nobbling the competition in
> itself.

	Another reason that the Japanese have slowed production is that
most low priced 1Mbit chips coming into the U.S. seem to be Korean in
origin, Samsung is the brand I heard most often. I was actually
specifically looking for 1M NEC chips, but almost no suppliers carry
them anymore, it seems.  
	I guess that the reason U.S. Memories is defunct is that they saw
that 4Mbit chips were too close to commodity time to allow them to get
their act together...
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	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
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