by Anna Filatova
01/24/2001 | 06:43 PM
There is something weird about DDR SDRAM. Currently this type of memory is so pricy that is supposed to be OK only for testers and those, who are determined to get top performance by all means. We don’t have any idea when it turns cheap enough to become worth buying for an average user. But there is another question to clear out: what reasons do the manufacturers of DDR SDRAM bring to explain its high price?
As we learned, these ones complain about the mainboard manufacturers for their unwillingness to produce boards in large quantities. Subsequently, DDR SDRAM manufacturers don’t rush to make more chips and modules, and eventually these modules appear in great shortage.
In their turn, mainboard manufacturers blame those ones producing DDR SDRAM modules for producing too few modules and chips and causing the shortage. So, these modules grow too expensive, the mainboards are not popular among the buyers, and vendors do not order them from the manufacturers.
A sheer vicious circle, isn’t it? Nonetheless, it’s for memory manufacturers to break it. The mainboards are already available, but DDR SDRAM modules themselves stay distressingly pricy.