DRAM profiteering

["Robert George" <george@holmes.cs.nps.navy.mil>]

>Because of the quake in Kobe, Japan, memory prices are rising

This is truly sick.

As a result of an earthquake six weeks ago in Japan, the world-wide price of
DRAM's, most of which were probably made at least a year ago, are rising.

Not to mention that Korea is now the world's largest producer of DRAM's

This reminds me of when a single resin factory exploded in Japan two years ago.
World-wide IC prices skyrocketed.  Even the American chip vendors jumped on the
bandwagon.

R.


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