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jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:

>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.

	Have you ever tried making your own SIMMs to save money?

	Memory, like everything else, is subject to laws of supply and
demand. If a third party starts making memory and selling it for some
low price, they'll sell a lot more memory than DEC will. There's a lot
more to bringing a product to market than the cost of manufacture and
the cost of the components. Try going into the add-on memory business
and you'll learn pretty quick.

mjr.