EBN Online brengt het erg prettige nieuws dat de RIMM prijzen van memory supplier Kingston Technology de afgelopen week met 35% zijn gedaald (eerder hier aangekondigd). Volgens Kingston zijn de prijsdalingen mogelijk omdat Samsung de prijzen van Rambus chips omlaag heeft gehaald. Een reepje met 128Meg PC800 ECC RDRAM moet nu 470 dollar gaan kosten, dus nog steeds geen prijs om blij van te worden:
Kingston declined to disclose its new RIMM pricing list. However, sources told EBN the cuts were even steeper than the company had indicated. The new quantity price for a Kingston 128-Mbyte, 800-MHz ECC (error-correction-coded) Rambus RIMM is now $470, down from $780 a week earlier. The 600-MHz ECC version was reduced to $380 from $670, making for reductions in the neighborhood of 40%. Low unit sales of the same RIMMs ranged from $579 to $669.[...] The aftermarket retail street price of RIMMs also dropped last week. Pricewatch.com, an Internet market-monitoring service, showed dealers quoting 128-Mbyte RIMMs for $560 to $615, and 64-Mbyte modules for $292 to $403. The memory buyer for an Internet RIMM dealer, Hotupgrades.com, Costa Mesa, Calif., said the company's $599 price tag for a 128-Mbyte, 712-MHz RIMM was down from nearly $1,000 only a few months ago. He attributed the drop to a larger supply of RIMMs showing up in the after-market.
Thanks Hilko voor de tip.