DDR Ram, How much and When?

[damocles]

It isnt for sale here
any ideas?

 

[piku]

End of year hopefully, unless Rambus gives us yet another reason to want Mike Tyson to eat their children.

 

[NOX]

piku:

LOL...that was funny and sick!

 

[jaydee]

not soon enough

 

[damocles]

Guess PC 133 wins for me then. That is getting expensive at the moment so i shudder to think about $DDR$ $RAM$

 

[Mem]

You are right!,I cannot hold out for DDR memory so will probably upgrade my low 66mhz board to 133mhz memory & board real soon(now I have the cash).

 

[piku]

Well if it wasn't for Rambus, DDR prices wouldn't be too high. I was hearing like $150-200 for 128 megs of DDR RAM a while ago. Not too bad, considering how much RDRAM costs and how much better DDR is.

 

[jaydee]

Approximently September AMD will have a chipset SUPPORTING it but I havent heard anything about its actual release. Anyone when PC150 will be out?

 

[Midnight Rambler]

<< Well if it wasn't for Rambus, DDR prices wouldn't be too high. I was hearing like $150-200 for 128 megs of DDR RAM a while ago. Not too bad, considering how much RDRAM costs and how much better DDR is. >>

Statements like this are pure ignorance. A.) RAMBUS has zero effect on the price of DDR B.) DDR prices, just like RDRAM prices, are 99.9% dependent on manufacturing volumes - the couple percent royalty fee RAMBUS receives translates to a few dollars, tops. C.) The reason for memory (SDRAM included) price increases is that the memory companies are switching a bunch of their capacity to FLASH to take advantage of the high profit margins there. Talk about overpriced memory, but with the demand for it for cellphones, etc., they can charge what they want. Anybody who thinks RAMBUS winning a royalty suit against SDRAM companies is the cause of any major price increase is out of touch with reality. At 2%, and interpolated out for a 128MB DIMM, it might result in an increase of about $2.25-2.50.

 

[NOX]

<<Anybody who thinks RAMBUS winning a royalty suit against SDRAM companies is the cause of any major price increase is out of touch with reality.>>

I agree! There is more then meets the eye here, it?s overkill at this point to even mention Rambus and Royalties. Personally I only debate the process of which Rambus took to achieve Royalties for SDR/DDR., but I agree $900,000 a year for SDR/DDR royalties is hardly an impact on the industry. Though I maybe wrong.

BTW: I was laughing at the Mike Tyson Part!

[EDIT] opps...forgot a few zeros!

[EDIT] If memory manufacturers are required to pay Rambus 3% royalties, and they (memory manufacturers) make 30 million years end, 3% of 30 million is $900,000. If it?s quarterly then lets say 6 million, 3% of 6 million is $180,000 x4 = $720,000.

Remember I?m just guesstimating, it well very greatly more or less!

Don't bother to let me know if I am way off.

 

[randomlinh]

was that a serious number? $9000 a year?

 

[Mday]

stupid rambus.

 

[Marty]

I've heard some pretty serious and believable rumors/speculation on the si amd thread that we may see the AMD 760MP chipset before september is out. That chipset supports multiple processors, DDR-SDRAM, ATA-100, AGP-4X, and all the other latest goodies...

Marty

 

[jaydee]

Could I see a url on that Marty?

 

[Finality]

Isn't the memory industry a 25 billion dollar a year industry?

So 1-2% would make it 250-500 million.