Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tikal!hplsla!tomb 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 References: <5571@oberon.USC.EDU> Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA Lines: 14 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 uucp: !hplabs!hplsla!tomb