X-Bit Labs weet te melden dat de drie voornaamste RDRAM bakkers een stijging hebben aangekondigd in de productie van RDRAM. De grootste producent, Samsung, heeft gezegd deze maand 4 miljoen chips te zullen produceren, een flinke stijging t.o.v. van november (2,9 mln) en oktober (2,75 mln). NEC en Toshiba zitten respectievelijk op 750 duizend en 1 miljoen eenheden en verwachten ook een productietoename:
Since Intel has launched a new Pentium 4 processor and the systems for it now support only RDRAM, most memory manufacturers including NEC, Samsung and Toshiba announced the increase in RDRAM modules manufacturing. The major RDRAM-maker, Samsung, said that 2.75 million RDRAM chips were manufactured in October only, and 2.9 million chips came out in November. In December the volumes should reach 4 million chips! NEC and Toshiba are now making about 750 thousand and 1 million chips per month correspondingly and are also going to enlarge the manufactured volumes. As for other large memory makers, such as Hyundai, Micron and Infineon, they are now having a trial procedure against Rambus and are hardly willing to deal with RDRAM in the near future.
Well, let’s hope that the growth of RDRAM manufacturing will finally force the prices on RIMM modules to drop down to reasonable level.