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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: JDR Microdevices (was memory chip prices)
Message-ID: <5160005@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Dec 87 17:17:47 GMT
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My (fairly good, high-powered) grapevine tells me that at least part of
the problem in high prices for the 1Mbit ram chips is poor yields at the
manufacturers lines.  If it is indeed only the monitary (exchange-rate)
problem that is causing the high prices, this is a GOLDEN opportunity for
US manufacturers to make up some lost time/$ -- if they can respond in
time -- and to regain a lot of lost market for the future as well.

Has anyone done a comparison similar to the basenote's, but for the
256k chips?  If they have gone up by the same amount, then it clearly
IS exchange-rate driven; if not, I think it points to technical
problems, as I have heard.

Tom Bruhns
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