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DDR Prices - How Low will they go??
I have a lot of PC133 SDRAM and have been waiting to switch to DDR
because the price of the RAM was higher than the whole motherboard! I've just been trying to baby my KT266 and hope it holds out. Now the prices of DDR seem to be dropping, but I don't want to get burned on memory prices like I have in the past. I've paid as low as $45 for 512 MB of SDRAM. Any idea if the DDR prices will keep dropping? Have there been any predictions about future supply/demand and when prices might hit a low? |
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"Al" wrote in message
... I have a lot of PC133 SDRAM and have been waiting to switch to DDR because the price of the RAM was higher than the whole motherboard! I've just been trying to baby my KT266 and hope it holds out. Now the prices of DDR seem to be dropping, but I don't want to get burned on memory prices like I have in the past. I've paid as low as $45 for 512 MB of SDRAM. Any idea if the DDR prices will keep dropping? Have there been any predictions about future supply/demand and when prices might hit a low? Interesting question to think about. I can remember the days where a megabyte of memory for a Digital PDP-10 cost about $80,000 and filled a 6' relay rack. In 1980 I heard a talk by Leo Rideout from IBM. He state that microrprocessors were not an important revenue source, but rather, memory chips is where the rubber hits the road. Now, to first order the cost of a memory chip is a small constant (manufacturing, packaging, sales, ...) plus a number related to the area of the chip. The Orient wins all the battles. If we in the USA want to preserve our technology resources, we must have tarriffs to make the price of a memory chip independent of whether it was made in this country or in the Orient. But politicians may decide that this is not a desireable goal. If so, we will see low memory prices for as long as the US is willing to let other countries know what to build and how to build it. Meanwhile, engineers who would normally be inventing the next generation of technology will be standing in the unemployment lines. |
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In June they are going to begin using DDR2 in the newest motherboards so DDR
production will begin to go down. That may mean prices will be going back up due to shortages. -- DaveW "Al" wrote in message ... I have a lot of PC133 SDRAM and have been waiting to switch to DDR because the price of the RAM was higher than the whole motherboard! I've just been trying to baby my KT266 and hope it holds out. Now the prices of DDR seem to be dropping, but I don't want to get burned on memory prices like I have in the past. I've paid as low as $45 for 512 MB of SDRAM. Any idea if the DDR prices will keep dropping? Have there been any predictions about future supply/demand and when prices might hit a low? |
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The global economy isp icking up so corporates will soon start buying PCs,
routers, switches, etc, bringing a demand to memory. However, I agree on the thought about jobs going overseas. "DaveW" wrote in message news:2HcYb.337750$na.496674@attbi_s04... In June they are going to begin using DDR2 in the newest motherboards so DDR production will begin to go down. That may mean prices will be going back up due to shortages. -- DaveW "Al" wrote in message ... I have a lot of PC133 SDRAM and have been waiting to switch to DDR because the price of the RAM was higher than the whole motherboard! I've just been trying to baby my KT266 and hope it holds out. Now the prices of DDR seem to be dropping, but I don't want to get burned on memory prices like I have in the past. I've paid as low as $45 for 512 MB of SDRAM. Any idea if the DDR prices will keep dropping? Have there been any predictions about future supply/demand and when prices might hit a low? |
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 23:50:22 GMT, "DaveW" wrote:
In June they are going to begin using DDR2 in the newest motherboards so DDR production will begin to go down. That may mean prices will be going back up due to shortages. -- DaveW Good info. I saw the big leap in SDRAM prices when DDR first came out too, so it makes sense. |
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