OCZ to Stop Making Some DRAM [WSJ]

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It's possible. Their ram generally comes in a plastic container anyone can pop open so no way of telling unless you saw fingerprint smudges or physical damage. But there was the two pairs I RMA'ed that came back bad.

so they have no seal? thats not good...
and the rmas... thats not good at all :S

Define high volume.

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yes, available products doesnt let you directly guess the volume theyre selling, but it gives you a good idea as it costs money to prepare a seperate product and they wouldnt do it if they werent making enough money off of them.

Well, even if you make 3% initial profit in the retail market, you may end up going into the red ink due to warranty returns, repairs, paying for the customer support and shipping, infrastructure, etc,.
Maybe why OCZ is operating at a loss currently...

I'm pretty sure OCZ outsources their DIMM manufacturing to Taiwan.
So any binning and sorting would be done by that contract manufacturer, who has plenty of other commodity DRAM customers to eat up the lower binned chips.
There's also plenty of contract manufacturers to bin chips and then resell them to the module guys.

right, so once that happens for a given product, you phase it out... but why would you phase out several products at once, and then even make an announcement about it? thats like saying, hey, weve been selling at a loss for a while but now we realized thats not a good idea and will stop selling those products. ^^