Taiwan to Overhaul Memory Chip Industry

[HardOCP News]

An industry veteran has been chosen to head Taiwan Memory Company, the state-backed company that will merge six memory chipmakers into one.

Taiwan Memory Co. will be established within six months. It has not been decided yet what role Japan's Elpida Memory or U.S.-based Micron Technology would play, according to the report. One of these two memory chipmakers could either collaborate with the merged companies or become part of the new entity.

 

[FLECOM]

uh? what? this dosent seem like its going to be good for prices, if there is only ONE major company making dram ics

 

[ElGuapo242]

Wow, this seems like a really bad idea no? Methinks that memory is gonna get pricey in the not too distant future.

 

[the_dealer]

Change is coming indeed, apparently socialism has been the answer to all our problems all along.

 

[Synful Serenity]

it was either this or another "fire", and this is stronger and more permanent than that. They also probably realized they pulled the fire card one too many times already. Only a matter of how soon and how much prices go up. For Taiwan, it's win-win for the government and all the companies involved, so they're all going to go along with this the same reason dogs lick themselves....Because they can.

 

[Spectrum17]

Seems like a bad time with the world economy tanking for anyone to get greedy and think about jacking up prices. They may think Americans have deep pockets, but they may change their minds when they see plummeting demand in the face of spiraling prices. Computers are luxury items, after all. Even most business are at the point where they can easily decide to wait a year or more to upgrade.

 

[HAF72]

uh? what? this dosent seem like its going to be good for prices, if there is only ONE major company making dram ics

This, because there won't be as much competition so they can raise their price ..

 

[Riftsaw]

Could this mean no more cheap RAM?

Oh god, my heart!

 

[__hollywood|meow]

um, this doesnt sound like a good idea to me

 

[R0N1]

The DRAM makers have nowadays been in not so good positions. They've had to lower prices much because of the competition, so that their profits have been too low. Though maybe this is bad for us.

 

[UnlimitedMP]

The DRAM makers have nowadays been in not so good positions. They've had to lower prices much because of the competition, so that their profits have been too low. Though maybe this is bad for us.

..but I like it when I can sometimes find 2gb of decent ram for $5 AR...

 

[matrix563]

Could this mean no more cheap RAM?

Oh god, my heart!

mine 2

 

[DanNeely]

Could this mean no more cheap RAM?

Oh god, my heart!

WTF do you expect to happen since the delayed DDR3 adoption's meant that everyone whose been gorging themselves on DDR2 sales has been bankrupting the ram companies.