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The initial announcement of the 16GB iPad’s $499 price tag wowed the press and public—finally, we thought, Apple is making their sleek devices available to the “every-man.”  The more we looked over the price, specs and all of the extra costs—like 3G and higher configurations—we realized Apple was once again ripping us off and now, thanks to iSuppli, we know for certain they were. iSuppli announced today that the collective… Read More

Hynix Semiconductor Inc. recorded its first quarterly net profit in two years as prices for memory chips rose in a rapidly recovering market. The company said in a regulatory filing it earned 246.28 billion won ($207.25 million) in the three months ended Sept. 30. It posted a net loss of 1.67 trillion won a year earlier. The profit ended seven straight quarters of losses. Icheon, South Korea-based Hynix said third quarter sales rose 15 percent… Read More

A surge in buying by PC makers, among other issues, has supported the price rise, said Nam Hyung Kim, an analyst with iSuppli Corp. All of this has pushed spot prices to nearly double what they were a year earlier. Prices in the spot market for a popular type of memory chip, 256-megabit double data-rate memory, jumped 10.8 percent to $6.30, according to DRAMeXchange, an online memory marketplace. A year ago, prices were $3.33, said… Read More