Taiwan hit with earthquake - ram prices going back up real fast?

[DeeK]

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If the supplies from Taiwan were lessened, then there would be more demand for what's available. Thus the price would increase. A little under two years ago there was an earthquake in Taiwan and within a couple of weeks RAM prices had jumped by a factor of two to four at least. Back around '93 a glue factory that provided 10% of the glue used to attach the DRAM core to the package was destroyed. RAM prices went sky high right afterwards.

 

[ElFenix]

the earthquake wasn't that serious, didn't cause much damage, nothing to get all excited about, RAM prices aren't going back up. and it would be less supply, not more demand. not even more demand for what is out there. demand doesn't change.

 

[Degenerate]

hmm, well if an earthquake happened in USA, well, not big, it wont affect much in the sales of the taiwan RAM. but the vice versa will caue major problems. remember taiwan produce ALTO of stuff in your computer. blah blah.blah........back to work