Mike said:
This link seems to indicate 'exactly' that ram and the part number is
'Micron' - but the site's listing doesn't say Micron Tech or Micron
Technology tho'.
But... Micron Technology doesn't have that logo and the micron website
seems to say to me that all of their part numbers start with MT.
That is very confusing to me, and also, I've seen that pyramid before,
but I can't remember where or what.
The module is Legacy Electronics branded. Legacy is a small company
that *makes* memory modules. The web page in question isn't just
reselling someone else's module. (One financials web page claims they
have 50 employees, but that can't be right). The pyramid logo seems to
be theirs. The chips on the module may be Micron chips, but the brand
of the finished module is Legacy Electronics.
Just about anyone can make modules if they want. There is one company
that sells PCB blanks for DIMMs, if you want to get into the business.
You buy a soldering production line, plug PCB blanks and memory chips
into one end, and DIMMs come out the other end. You come up with some
kind of crazy testing scheme for the products (test them in desktop
motherboards for example), put them in a blister pak and you're in
the memory business. Your business fails, because margins are so thin.
You can see a movie of the dudes at Legacy, doing just that. Unzip
and play in Windows Media Player (about 29MB). I got the movie,
just for the sound track
http://www.legacyelectronics.com/movies/Legacy-Movie.zip
The reason a company like Legacy is around, is not because of that
particular module. They are one of the companies that makes specialized
memory modules. There are ways of mounting chips on top of one another,
to make double capacity DIMMs and the like. For a lot of money, a
company that wants to fill a server with memory, could buy some
of those higher-than-normal capacity DIMMs. And that is what would
keep a business like Legacy around. Making ordinary DIMMs would be
pretty pointless, as the Chinese or Taiwanese would eat your lunch.
Still, if you need to keep your production line running, you might
fill part of the capacity with ordinary memory products, even if
you weren't making money from it.
Paul
