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Shown are the average prizes for DRAMs as a function of time for each generation |
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Note that the scale is logarithmic! |
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While you may get around $100 for chip for a short time, you will be down to a few
$ within 3 - 4 years! |
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There are influences beyond your control. In bad years the Dollar exchange rate may kill you (chips are
always sold in $$). If you are lucky, trade restrictions (by the Americans in 87/88) make the commodity scarce
and prizes go actually up (see the 1 Mbit; very unusual!). |
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What this prize decay really means is very graphically illustrated below where the cost of
1 Mbit of 1 Mbit memory is expressed in every day items |
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© H. Föll (Semiconductor Technology - Script)
5.3.1 Moore's Law and what it Means 
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