Why is it so surprising? In the portable device arena,
where the 'average'
person changes their gadgets every couple of years for ones with the latest
features, it's the vendors who are dictating ever-smaller, ever-faster chips
which necessitate the higher densities. They don't care if the thing dies in
three years. In fact, that works entirely in their interest as, providing
everybody's doing it (which they are it seems), it means they sell more
product than they would otherwise. Call it a good incentive for consumers to
upgrade.
Once again, I ask what "well-known chip manufacturer"?
--
Will