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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: gnuman who wrote (77163)3/8/2000 8:19:00 AM
From: Steve Lee  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
I've seen estimates the PC industry consumes 500 million DRAM's per quarter

You need 8 SDRAM or DDR-RAM chips on a module. Rambus doesn't have this requirement. Hence you need a lot more DRAM chips for non RDRAM memory to get the equivalent memory capacity. When comparing numbers of chips you need to make that adjustment.

So 10 million RDRAM chips for the quarter which is nearly over when when the 5 went into "full production" is not bad. And don't forget Samsung is building another line with a view to doubling RDRAM volumes, Infineon is building another plant and Microns ramp is only just about to start this month. So on a volume basis, RDRAM will be a significant proportion of RAM production. It's dollar market share will be even greater due to the higher prices of RDRAM.
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