OCZ pulling out of RAM market

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http://www.techpowerup.com/138163/O...eports-Fiscal-2011-Third-Quarter-Results.html

"In August 2010, the Company announced a strategic optimization of its memory products whereby it discontinued certain unprofitable commodity memory module products with the intent to continue only with certain high-performance memory products. However, since that time, there has been well-chronicled, continued weakness in the global DRAM markets.

Having balanced this DRAM market weakness against the capital needs of the Company's growing SSD products, the board has determined that it is in the best interests of the stockholders to accelerate plans to discontinue its remaining DRAM module products by the end of its current fiscal year of February 28, 2011.Accordingly, our DRAM products are now expected to have minimal, if any, sales in the next fiscal year and beyond.

Reporting on a GAAP basis, which includes certain items related to the accelerated discontinuation of the Company's DRAM products, the acquisition of certain intellectual property, changes in warrant derivative valuation, and other non cash charges, GAAP net loss for Q3'11 was $8.3 million, or $0.29 loss per diluted share. This compares to GAAP net loss of $1.0 million, or $0.05 loss per share in Q3'10."

Shame as I have some of their RAM and it has been good as gold..
 
Any reduction in competition is a bad thing. I've had no issues with my memory over the past few years.

However, one has to wonder whether the market for SSDs will go the same way of that of DRAM? OCZ didn't manufacture its own DRAM ICs and it doesn't manufacture its own SSD controller or flash memory. Eventually these will be commodity items too I guess. Where then for OCZ?
 
It was great news to read this yesterdays 3rd quarter report, I see no reason to chase a loss leading market.

OCZ have quadroupled their SSD manufacturing capacity, 78% of OCZ's net revenue now comes from SSD's.

There's a chance they will get bought out by a major player.
 
Justintime said:
Good riddance i say, their RAM and psus are crap. Got enough DOA sticks, sticks that fail to run advertised speed and blown psus to qualify that statement.
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running ocz ram and an ocz psu right here with no problems whatseover. That said, i cant really deny there was some pretty apparent quality control issues over the last year or so...

should knock a few more quid off the second hand market anyways...
 
My first thought goes for competition. I've always favoured having more competitiors as it generally means us consumers win because of aggressive pricing and more choice. So a bit of a shame there.

Ezyryder said:
how will that affect the rmas?
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This was my immediate second thought. In this case, I'd be wary of buying OCZ RAM even if offered with a lifetime warranty. If you're looking for cheap RAM though, maybe because of this situation you may want to take a look at OCZ.
 
Thier psu line used a lot of FSP Epsilon units, poor overrated platform with many shortcomings (high ripple etc..) from a mediocre OEM.

I bought quite a bit of platinum PC6400 Cas 4 DDR2 2gb kits once at close to cost as supplier was having money issues, only on a few boards could i get it running supposed stock settings at reasonable voltages (usually 2.1v) On some boards i just had to give up and use CAS 5 timings, or try different memory altogether.
I purchased 42 sets and had to RMA 16 sets as being DOA within 5 months, mostly single stick, i think a few were sometimes both. A few have randomly died in clients systems as well, way over the norm and the supplier went bust so its lost revenue, no time for RMA with OCZ as theres no UK RMA afaik. I kept 5 kits to cover my own warranty period, all are gone and i had to purchase a few sticks from ocuk a few yrs back to cover another dead set lol.

Had a few other of their kits, Reaper etc.. and had similar issue, even now after i tried a few of their DDR3 modules i found them not on par with Gskill, Corsair, Geil etc.. God knows why i love their SSDs so much!
 
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