On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Alain Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > The boxen that we are getting use DDR1 RAM -- DDR1 is now more expensive > than DDR2 -- to do with volume I suppose.
basically, yes. ironically, the listed price of a Cortex A8 833mhz samsung S5PC100 ($14.50) plus even as little as 128mb of DDR2 RAM is _less_ than the price of the ARM11 S3C6410 ($11) with 128mb of DDR1 RAM. but, with the hold that samsung has over apple due to its near-exclusive use in the iphone 3G, i think it's safe to say that samsung is playing power games right now and is waiting to see what happens. if they make their own "iphone killer" then whoopsie, there will be a fire at a factory somewhere in korea, o dear mr apple we can't supply you the S5PC100, the core component of your phone this month. so, everybody has to wait until the power games are over before they can get S5PC100 CPUs, probably in the form of apple redesigning the iphone 3G to use their own brand spanking new 1ghz A4 they're using in the (already flopped) iPad. l. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
