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- From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum AXP)
- Subject: Re: alpha memory requirements (vs vax) ?
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:23:11 GMT
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- jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
-
- >70ns 1Mb chips are selling for less
- >than $2.50 per in volume... that works out to less than $25 for a
- >9-chip SIMM. If your manufacturing cost is as high as $10/SIMM,
- >that's still nearly a 300% markup.
-
- Have you ever tried making your own SIMMs to save money?
-
- Memory, like everything else, is subject to laws of supply and
- demand. If a third party starts making memory and selling it for some
- low price, they'll sell a lot more memory than DEC will. There's a lot
- more to bringing a product to market than the cost of manufacture and
- the cost of the components. Try going into the add-on memory business
- and you'll learn pretty quick.
-
- mjr.
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