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DRAM prices are likely to remain stable
DRAM PRICES are likely to remain low thanks to the Taiwanese government pledging to bankroll the industry's restructuring.
Taiwan's new economic minister Shih Yen-shiang has told a press conference that the government's direction of restructuring the island's capacity-driven DRAM sector will continue and confirmed an application for government funds from TMC.
Funding is also likely for Nanya and Inotera, which are expected to submit a joint application for cash.
Apparently the men from the Ministry have been chatting with the pair over tea and sticky buns and should get their papers sent in fairly soon.
Shih wants Taiwan's DRAM industry to develop its home-grown IP and key technologies, with a focus on sustainable growth. He apparently thinks it is silly for Taiwan's memory manufacturers to have to pay $617 million annually for overseas patents.
Taiwan's determination to provide funding subsidies is fairly crucial to DRAM price stability. All the manufacturers need to restructure in the wake of mounting debts, however they are finding it difficult to get the money to pay for it.
If any of them went under there would be a DRAM shortage of Biblical proportions, which might or might not be followed by a plague of frogs. µ
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it was cheaper before i5 launch and that includes the low voltage 1.5v sticks. 2x2Gb was £50 now £70-£80.
I think it’s a ploy to try to get those dam Germans out of the memory market, you know if you give them the chance they’ll try to take over the world! eh?
If these companies are so damn poor, why is the Taiwanese government subsidizing them to provide *cheaper* prices? And wouldn't it be beneficial, not to mention "natural" to allow some of these floundering companies to fail and therefore have a scarcity of products in order to raise prices and in turn, sustain better profits?
I like the cheap DRAM prices, but these subsidies just seem idiotic from an economics point of view.
without grease I might add
Ya i hope the prices of rams stay cheap. When Vista come out the prices of rams went thru the dam roof. I found old receipt of corsair XMS ddr2 800Mhz rams i bought when vista come out and it was $345 after 12 months the same rams are $40. OMG i couldnt beleive it. Computer companies like to shaft the consummer. Rams got caught ripping off consummer. AT/Nvidia got caught ripping off consummer. LCD maker got caught ripping of consummer. Always we have to bent over and take it up the ass.