chip manufacturers

djs488

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what are the main chip manufacturers that companies like OCZ and Corsair buy from and then attach their memory modules to. do these companies also make the wafers themselves?

 

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Used to be winbond with the BH-5, CH-5 modules now it's going over to Hynix with the BT-D43 and D50.

Suma.

 

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djs488

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are these the ONLY two manufacturers or just the "best" ones? i mean, there must be more for the lower priced memory.

OCZ and Mushkin and such arent merely distrubutors of Hynix's RAM as Saphire and PowerColor are to ATI's vid cards?

 

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Samsung, Micron, Infineon, and Hynix are the major DRAM players. Combined, they hold over 3/4 of the DRAM market.

 

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and apparently winbond has just dropped out of that group? i do notice that samsung is a staple ram on just about every vid card i;ve seen. was my earlier postulation about distrubutors correct?