Volgens een bericht van The Register is het onwaarschijnlijk dat geheugen fabrikanten de productie van DRAM chips zullen terugschroeven. Begin deze week kondigde Hynix aan dat het bedrijf met de huidige lage prijzen overweegt om de productie van geheugen chips te reduceren. De geheugen fabrikanten zijn voorzichtig met het nemen van stappen omdat de vorige gezamenlijke productie verlaging van Samsung, Hynix (Hyundai) en LG in 1997 voor deze fabrikanten minder goed uitpakte dan voor de fabrikanten die onverminderd bleven produceren. Een prijsverhoging is daarom voorlopig niet in zicht. In de afgelopen maand daalden de 128Mbit prijzen in Europa zelfs met 7,1 procent:
Citing the last time any of the majors cut DRAM production, back in 1997, Choi noted that Samsung, which initiated a joint cut with Hynix, LG and others, found itself doing rather less well than the likes of Micron, which continued to punch out as many RAM chips as before.
"The production cuts at the time produced various negative effects, making chipmakers cautious about taking the option ever since," he said.
The prospect of production cuts was raised this week when Hynix warned that it might have to reduce its output if the market slump continues much longer. [break] In een ander bericht meldt Electronic Buyers' News dat ProMos Technologies, eigendom van Infineon en Mosel Vitelic, in Taiwan een nieuwe 300mm wafer fab voor de productie van DRAM chips wil openen. ProMos hoopt dat de vraag op de geheugenmarkt volgend jaar met 50 tot 60 procent toeneemt. Volgens sommige analisten zijn deze verwachtingen echter te optimistisch: [/break] “DRAM prices have plunged to a level that has never been seen before, but demand is still growing less than everyone expected,” said Carol Yu, an analyst with Grand Cathay Securities Co., Taipei. “The possibility of a strong recovery would be slim because DRAM makers will continue to adjust their inventories through 2001.”
Citing the last time any of the majors cut DRAM production, back in
1997, Choi noted that Samsung, which initiated a joint cut with Hynix,
LG and others, found itself doing rather less well than the likes of
Micron, which continued to punch out as many RAM chips as before.
When the Pentium 4 hit the market in November of 2000, it was the first major new x86 microarchitecture from Intel since the Pentium Pro. In the years prior to the P4's launch the P6 core dominated the market in its incarnations as the Pentium II and Pentium III, and anyone who was paying attention during that time learned at least one, major lesson: clock speed sells. Intel was definitely paying attention, and as the Willamette team labored away in Santa Clara they kept MHz foremost in their minds. This singular focus is evident in everything from Intel's Pentium 4 promotional and technical literature down to the very last detail of the processor's design. As this article will show, the successor to the most successful x86 microarchitecture of all time is a machine built from the ground up for stratospheric clock speed.

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