New DRAM pricing trends: the bi rule

1 March 1991

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine

Vol. 7 (2) , 44-45
https://doi.org/10.1109/101.75928

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

RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY
PRICING
BISMUTH
COSTS
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
THROUGHPUT
PRODUCTION
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
MARINE VEHICLES
CAPACITANCE

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DRAM pricing trends — The π rule
IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, 1985