I am curious...


When memory is manufactured why does a stick of 4GB memory cost 2.5 times of
2GB memory? Is the manufacturing process that much different to justify the
cost?

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 01:08 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:

> When memory is manufactured why does a stick of 4GB memory cost 2.5
> times of 2GB memory? Is the manufacturing process that much different
> to justify the cost?

Smaller die size means higher price. You're squeezing twice as many
circuits into the same real estate.

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Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca

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On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:14:01 -0700
Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:

Hello Paul,

> Smaller die size means higher price. You're squeezing twice as many
> circuits into the same real estate.

As a result, failure rate will be higher too, since greater density
leads to greater risk of error.

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