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To: Bilow who wrote (73543)	5/23/2001 8:11:47 PM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Toshiba: Choosing High-Performance DRAM for Tomorrow's Applications toshiba.com

To: Bilow who wrote (73543)	5/23/2001 8:25:10 PM
From: richard surckla	Respond to of 93625

Bilow... All DDR SDRAM Chipsets Got Cheaper [1:59 pm] Gavric... All DDR SDRAM Chipsets Got Cheaper [1:59 pm] Gavric A real cutthroat battle is raging throughout the DDR SDRAM chipset sector. It has resulted in another price cut. In particular, as we read here, chipsets by ALi (Aladdin Pro 5 and MAGiK 1) are pricing at $20-21 instead of the former $22-24, those by SiS are now cheaper than $20 (SiS635T with Tualatin support is available for $19). But the leaders are VIA’s children: presently these chipsets have got even with their ALi counterparts (let us remind you that chipsets by VIA started at about $35 and then were priced down to $26-28 per item in over-10000-piece units). It’s noteworthy that unlike SiS and ALi, VIA sells its chipsets to mainboard manufacturers for $20 per item only after a rebate. That is, a manufacturer should pay by the old price first, and after the chipsets are shipped VIA returns part of this sum. Well, chipset manufacturers have kept their promise to promote DDR SDRAM chipsets: currently such chipsets are only $1-2 more expensive than those with PC133 support. Now it’s up for the mainboard manufacturers to introduce reasonable prices for their DDR SDRAM products. As for the future of DDR SDRAM chipsets selling for the new prices, we dare assume the following: ALi chipsets have hardly any chances to gain the public’s recognition; Chipsets by SiS could’ve been pretty smart (at least the promising SIS735), but the company’s manufacturing capacities are obviously not enough; VIA chipsets are quite nice, but they can’t boast splendid performance (especially Apollo Pro266); After the launch of Intel 845 chipset with PC133 SDRAM (and some time later DDR SDRAM) support, the prospects of ALi, SiS and VIA chipsets for Socket370 platforms are dim. xbitlabs.com Thanks to kerry_lass from the YAHOO board

To: Bilow who wrote (73543)	5/24/2001 7:51:01 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi all; Update on the DDR and RDRAM pricing trend... Date SDRAM PC2100 PC800 PC2100 PC800 RDRAM/DDR 03/26/01 $46.20 $188.40 $306.20 +307% +562% 1.625 03/29/01 $47.40 $186.80 $306.20 +294% +538% 1.639 04/02/01 $45.20 $164.00 $293.20 +263% +549% 1.788 04/04/01 $45.20 $152.60 $293.20 +238% +549% 1.921 04/06/01 $45.00 $142.60 $285.00 +215% +533% 1.999 04/08/01 $45.00 $140.40 $277.40 +212% +516% 1.976 04/09/01 $45.00 $137.80 $281.60 +206% +526% 2.044 04/10/01 $44.60 $132.20 $274.40 +196% +515% 2.076 04/12/01 $43.20 $125.80 $268.00 +191% +520% 2.130 04/13/01 $43.00 $118.40 $263.00 +175% +512% 2.221 04/17/01 $42.00 $119.40 $257.80 +184% +514% 2.159 04/19/01 $42.00 $117.80 $258.20 +180% +515% 2.192 04/21/01 $41.40 $114.80 $248.80 +177% +501% 2.167 04/23/01 $40.00 $114.40 $246.00 +186% +515% 2.150 04/24/01 $42.00 $113.20 $236.60 +170% +463% 2.090 04/25/01 $41.00 $113.20 $234.80 +176% +473% 2.074 04/26/01 $40.20 $110.40 $231.60 +174% +476% 2.098 04/27/01 $39.80 $105.20 $230.80 +164% +480% 2.194 04/28/01 $39.60 $108.60 $229.20 +174% +479% 2.110 04/30/01 $39.40 $108.00 $224.80 +174% +471% 2.081 05/01/01 $39.00 $107.40 $221.80 +175% +469% 2.065 05/02/01 $39.00 $104.20 $215.60 +167% +453% 2.069 05/03/01 $39.00 $102.80 $215.40 +164% +452% 2.095 05/04/01 $39.00 $100.80 $211.40 +158% +442% 2.097 05/06/01 $39.00 $ 98.80 $210.40 +153% +439% 2.130 05/07/01 $39.00 $ 98.40 $210.00 +152% +438% 2.134 05/08/01 $39.00 $ 97.60 $204.00 +150% +423% 2.090 05/09/01 $38.80 $ 94.40 $200.00 +143% +416% 2.119 05/10/01 $39.00 $ 91.60 $198.60 +135% +409% 2.168 05/11/01 $39.00 $ 90.40 $198.60 +132% +409% 2.197 05/14/01 $38.60 $ 88.20 $198.40 +128% +414% 2.249 05/15/01 $37.60 $ 84.00 $197.40 +123% +425% 2.350 05/16/01 $37.20 $ 79.20 $197.20 +113% +430% 2.490 05/17/01 $36.80 $ 75.20 $193.20 +104% +425% 2.569 05/18/01 $35.40 $ 74.00 $192.00 +109% +442% 2.595 05/19/01 $35.00 $ 73.60 $190.20 +110% +443% 2.584 05/21/01 $34.80 $ 72.40 $189.80 +108% +445% 2.622 05/22/01 $34.60 $ 70.60 $189.60 +104% +448% 2.686 05/23/01 $34.60 $ 68.20 $188.60 + 97% +445% 2.765 05/24/01 $34.20 $ 67.40 $186.20 + 97% +444% 2.763 Anybody should have seen the trend well before now: In the race to price parity, DDR is beating the stuffing out of RDRAM. -- Carl P.S. Old data: #reply-15844961 New data from pricewatch: 05/24/01 PC133: $ 34, 34, 34, 34, 35 --> $ 34.20 PC2100: $ 67, 67, 67, 68, 68 --> $ 67.40 + 97% PC800: $183, 184, 187, 188, 189 --> $186.20 +444%