Title :
New DRAM pricing trends: the bi rule
Author :
Tarui, Vasuo ; Tarui, Tadaaki
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Univ. of Agric. & Technol., Japan
fDate :
3/1/1991 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Long-term pricing trends are approximately quantified. This is done using the bi rule, named for its prediction that bit cost will be reduced by one half with each succeeding DRAM generation. Pricing trends have been plotted for DRAMs up to 256 K using the pi rule, which describes the trend of the average price of packaged DRAM chips as a function of time, and for 1M DRAMs using the bi rule.<>
Keywords :
DRAM chips; economics; DRAM generation; DRAM pricing trends; average price; bi rule; bit cost; packaged DRAM chips; pi rule; Bismuth; Capacitance; Costs; Industrial relations; Manufacturing industries; Marine vehicles; Pricing; Production; Random access memory; Throughput;
Journal_Title :
Circuits and Devices Magazine, IEEE
