a lot of memory is ref pcb these days... micron and elpida and samsung want to sell dimms, not chips... sometimes chips cost more than a complete ref dimm with chips on it... why? they have to create ref designs and dimms anyways for the oems, why pay for that and then enable other pcb makers to compete with you? instead they artificially increase the price of individual dram chips so it makes more sense to buy a ref dimm from them, which means their customers subsidize their ref design and pcb manufacturing
so i really dont think it was the pcb...
why would elpida even have gotten involved then... if customers use bad pcbs, thats 100% their problem, i dont think elpida would have cared...
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