This is so true. Especially on DDR4 sticks they're basically price fixing at this point.
On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Bill Kontos <[email protected]> wrote: > There is currently a cartel going on on ram ICs. Once the chinese offered > the last american ram producing company( I forget it's name) to move its > production to China, ram pricing started climbing, the company is healthy > again and we are still seeing price hikes, so China is for once investing > in homegrown production. My guess it will be no earlier than 2019 before we > see prices dropping again. > > On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:46 PM, zap <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> bottom line it's far too expensive and quite impractical. 4GB is the >> >> practical limit at the moment and even that's stupidly expensive >> >> relatively speaking. >> >> >> >> l. >> > >> > Ah... okay I had no idea it would be that expensive if you made it from >> > scratch. my bad. >> >> hey not a problem. just have to keep an eye on prices for DDR3 (and >> DDR4 when it's more popular for ECs) over the next few years. >> >> l. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] >> http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook >> Send large attachments to [email protected] >> > > > _______________________________________________ > arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] > http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook > Send large attachments to [email protected] >
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