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Re: RAM chips

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From: Ron Schreiner
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1988 18:20
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In article <880310-105218-1986@Xerox> "chaz_heritage.WGC1RX"@XEROX.COM writes:

Actually he forwarded some info about DRAM prices

>1)	The Japanes
>	price got down to pennies a chip.

>2)	The Americans got priced out of business, so they shut down their chip
>	manufacturing lines -

>		Then screamed to their congressmen to "protect" them.

I was under the impression that
certain Japanese manufactors
were "dumping" DRAMs at below cost,
in an attemp to push the the
border-line American companies over
the edge.


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From: rnss@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Ron Schreiner)
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Subject: Re: RAM chips
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Date: 15 Mar 88 18:20:24 GMT
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