Toshiba Latest Casualty of DRAM Price Wars

Tsar writes: "ITWorld.com tells the story: Toshiba is getting out of the DRAM business. They had 6.2% of the world market last year, but soon their Manassas, VA facilities will belong to Micron, the Yokkaichi plant's DRAM production will be reduced to a trickle, and Toshiba will be out of the commodity memory market. Guess you can sell DRAM for a hundred bucks a gigabyte, but you can't make a living at it yet."

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Why in MY DAY!!!!

[gatesh8r]

We had to pay TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS for one MESELY 32k of RAM! We had IRON CORES to actually use. And we didn't have these flimsy PCBs to work with we were lucky to have VACCUM TUBES!

Why I remember when we used punch cards too and we programmed on the BARE METAL! Why we were lucky to have an ASSEMBLER or a punch card!

Why you kids NEVER had it rough!

Re:If you were smart... and other stuff

[cloudturtle]

RAM may be more usefull, but my big ole block of gold will not be made worthless by DDR GOLD, GOLD 2700, or the ever overpriced RD-GOLD.

The problem with RAM price flux is that the price always does go back up, but often it is the result of a new RAM product entering the market (pc100, pc133 ect) rather than the old stuff shooting up in price (although this does happen some). This makes it very hard to arbitrage (buy low, sell high) the ram market, because you buy the old stuff low, and when the market jumps it is for the new stuff (meaning you get stuck holding the old RAM).

Here's A Better Way For Them To Make A Living

[istartedi]

Guess you can sell DRAM for a hundred bucks a gigabyte, but you can't make a living at it yet."

Give the DRAM away for free, and sell support for it.