GA-Source heeft een nieuwsbericht over de toekomstplannen van Samsung wat betreft de DRAM produktie. Om een voorsprong te behouden gaat Samsung 50% meer investeren in die sector. Op zich niet zo interessant voor ons, wel dit stukje over 256-Mbit DRAMS:
The world's largest dynamic random access memory (DRAM) maker said it had raised this year's target for facilities investment to 3.7 trillion won ($3.12 billion), 1.2 trillion won more than earlier planned, a company spokesman said."Our facilities investment in the DRAM sector will mostly be focused on production facilities for 256-megabit DRAMs,'' Samsung's James Chung said. "We expect mass-production of the 256-megabit DRAMs will start in around 2001.''
The world market for the next-generation DRAM chips had yet to open, and the increased investment was aimed at securing a leading position in the future, Chung said.
Currently the 64-megabit product is the mainstay in the world DRAM market, although lower-capacity DRAMs are also in use. Along with central process units or CPU chips, DRAM chips form the brain of personal computers.
De prijzen van 256Meg DIMMs beginnen nu trouwens al op een redelijk normaal niveau te komen (op dit moment FL 645,- in de pricewatch).
