Hi all; Samsung ramps up DDR production:
Samsung To Increase DDR DRAM Output
Mark Hachman, ExtremeTech, August 16, 2001
Samsung Electronics Co., a leading proponent of Direct Rambus DRAM, said Thursday that it will ramp production of double-data-rate DDR DRAM by the end of the year.
Geoff Hughes, a spokesman for Samsung, San Jose, said that the company's DDR production in 128-Mbit unit equivalents, would be increased as a percentage of its annual output from 5 percent to 20 percent by the end of 2001.
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In units, Samsung expects its Direct Rambus DRAM production still to make up 25 percent of its sales; DDR DRAM will now represent 20 percent of its total production; and 55 percent of the company's output will be synchronous single-rate SDRAM. Samsung recorded a market share of over 40 percent in worldwide DDR sales for the first half of 2001, according to its own estimates. In dollar sales, however, "Direct Rambus is expected to have a greater than 5-to-1 ratio over DDR (sales)," Hughes said.
extremetech.com
Mom and pop (that means you, Steve Lee) should note the careful distinction between production figures and sales figures.
I'm interpreting the "5 to 1 ratio over DDR" to be the ratio for Samsung sales for all of 2001, not the ratio of sales at the "end of the year". Otherwise, the above figures would imply that Samsung expects RDRAM to sell at 4x the price of DDR at the end of the year.
-- Carl |
