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To: DavidG who wrote (41834)1/4/1999 2:18:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 53903
 
the issue is cost. 256 mb chips will shortly be less expensive to mfr, per bit, than 64 mb chips. remember, low cost producer wins???? of course, when the koreans take the lead in the cost structure, it is no big deal... when mu says they think they are the low cost producer, ya'll go into convulsions... ;-)



To: DavidG who wrote (41834)1/4/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: wily  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 53903
 
Technical point: I believe when they say 256 MB chip they are not talking about 256 Megabytes of SDRAM. It takes 8 256 MB chips to make 256 MBytes of RAM because there's 8 bits to a byte. I learned that on the Rambus thread. Sorry if I'm wrong, but you might check that. The other thing that makes me think I'm right is, if the manufacturer sells a 64 MB chip for $10, aren't they getting screwed if it goes retail for $80-100?

wily


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