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In article <1992Nov13.162542.5834@ais.com> bruce@ais.com (Bruce C. Wright) writes:
>In article <Bxnt6o.Jx0@mtholyoke.edu>, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
>> In article <1992Nov13.133438.8279@engage.pko.dec.com> jackson@pravda.enet.dec.com () writes:
>>>The memory for the new systems is priced at $125/MB, which is considerably 
>>>less than memory from Digital only a few weeks ago. In fact, Digital memory
>>>is less expensive than that of a third party who announced their memory
>>>for the DEC 3000 family before we announced the products.  We'll also trade
>>>in memory from a current workstation when you're upgrading to allow you
>>>to protect the investment that you've made in memory for our existing products.
>> 
>> Nonetheless it's too expensive... 70ns 1Mb chips are selling for less
>> than $2.50 per in volume... that works out to less than $25 for a
>> 9-chip SIMM.  If your manufacturing cost is as high as $10/SIMM,
>> that's still nearly a 300% markup.
>
>A minor nit, but ECC memory won't be 9 bits wide.  9 bits only gets
>you parity, you need more than that for ECC (depending on the method
>used).  I don't know offhand the memory architecture used by the
>Alpha so I don't know exactly how many chips it would need per SIMM.
>
>I suspect that the DEC memory is still on the expensive side though,
>just not as badly so as your computation would suggest.

There's another factor that our genious didn't take into account, that is,
the speed of the memory.  70ns memory won't hack it on a machine that is
running at 150-200MHz.  In case you didn't notice, 200MHz is a 5ns cycle,
a bit smaller than, oh, say *70*.

I know one 3rd party vendor, whose prices are significantly lower than DEC's
on most products, just quoted me $6495 for 64MB of memory for the Sandpiper.
DEC isn't too much higher than that, especially when you consider the price
disparity in the DECstation-line memory cards.

	Darrin
>Bruce C. Wright


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