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"Right now, 1 Megabyte of memory costs about $45 retail. This will not drop by an order of magnitude in the next decade without a breakthrough, or an economical
by CapitalistCartr 10y ago
"Right now, 1 Megabyte of memory costs about $45 retail. This will not drop by an order of magnitude in the next decade without a breakthrough, or an economical Gallium-Arsenide process to replace Silicon."
I love this line. Even in 1990 people didn't believe Moore's Law.
- zymhan 10y agoAnd yet we still have people who don't think Moore's law will cause us to reach the end of MOSFET at some point.
- fanf2 10y ago1990 was weird for memory prices because they were just recovering from memory shortages and price hikes. See this chart http://www.jcmit.com/mem2015.htm http://www.jcmit.com/mem2015.htm and this newspaper article from the time http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/25/business/shortage-of-chips-is-easing.html http://www.nytimes.com/1988/11/25/business/shortage-of-chips...