5Words: Watch Out For Rising Prices!
By Harry McCracken | Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 10:04 am
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January 12th, 2010 at 1:48 pm
“rising prices”
Let’s have some perspective here.
“The cost of semiconductor components in computers has fallen by an average of 7.8 per cent a year since 2000, but is set to rise 2.8 per cent this year, according to data from Gartner, the research consultancy.”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3d2afba2-ff1a-11de-a677-00144feab49a.html
Some of us can remember when core memory costs $1 per byte. Think about it. $1 billion USD for 1 GB of memory. Only you could not buy a GB, the largest amount was a few megabytes.