From: Justin Mason (jm at domain netnoteinc.com)
Date: Tue 14 Sep 1999 - 11:13:56 IST
David Murphy said:
> Quoting <199909131137.LAA25378 at domain sced.esoc.esa.de>
> by Niall O Broin <nobroin at domain sced.esoc.esa.de>:
>
> > As a matter of idle curiosity, does anyone know why SD-RAM prices
> > are heading for the stratosphere ? They seem to have more than
> > doubled in the last few weeks. If the answer is pork bellies, fine,
> > but I was just wondering if another factory had burnt down or what.
>
> In theory, RAM prices are caused by production disasters or whatever.
> However, you'll notice that explanations for RAM price hikes are often
> many, varied, and generally inconsistent. Personally, I don't believe
> any of them.
Apparently the RAM crisis right now was caused by the extremely low prices
last year -- a lot of factories closed down as they couldn't make the $$$
with those margins. (That's where George Soros should have come in and
bought them all up ;)
But the news.com article seemed to indicate that things will be improving
RSN... it's just a temporary shortage of production. That's no good to me
though, I wanna play Quake 3 NOW!!
--j.
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