Governments Preparing To Bail Out DRAM Makers

An anonymous reader writes "DRAM makers are facing one of the worst downturns in their history and governments around the world are lining up to help companies through the mess. Taiwan, Germany and South Korea all appear poised to offer some assistance to their DRAM chip makers. The chip makers' problems are indicative of global woes. Easy lending terms and a bright view of the future prompted them to build too many new DRAM factories. Much of the new output was aimed at Microsoft's Windows Vista, which has higher memory requirements than XP."

Comments

Re:What about bailing out people?

[martin-boundary]

But the government is *for the people*. Corporations should never get the money, people should.

Blowing my mind

[NinthAgendaDotCom]

Much of the new output was aimed at Microsoft's Windows Vista

So you're telling me Vista is actually good for something, stimulating an industry? :-)

Re:Blowing my mind

[alienunknown]

For the economies sake then, we can only hope that Microsoft does the right thing and makes Windows 7 the most bloated version of windows yet. Also including the added bonus of optional "economy-booster" slowdown packs available exclusively through Windows Live.

Re:Bailout Bandwagon

[doktorjayd]

From an outsider's perspective, it kinda seems like a bandwagon

merchant bankers, stockbrokers, debt traders... seems more like a conga line to me!

Thought it was DRM

[yowlanku]

I read the whole article replacing DRAM for DRM, but it was fun :)

Re:Bailout Bandwagon

[theaveng]

On Monday December 15, 6:19AM, geighaus wrote:
>
> But rest assured with injections of trillions of newly-created dollars into the economy,
> [what] little value [the] dollar has left will be disintegrated. Correct me if I am wrong.

There you go. :-)