Why is RAM so cheap?

Okay, I just bought 128mb of RAM for $88AUS. That's about $45US. What's the deal? Has someone flooded the market? Whilst I'm not complaining, I'm a little confused. Written on Win2000 using: PII 300 Aopen AX6B 288mb RAM Diamond Viper 770 32mb Matrox Millenium2 2mb SBLive! Value 20gb Seagate 6gb WDCaviar 1.

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Okay,
I just bought 128mb of RAM for $88AUS.
That's about $45US.
What's the deal? Has someone flooded the market?
 
Whilst I'm not complaining, I'm a little confused.
 
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Written on Win2000 using:
PII 300
Aopen AX6B
288mb RAM
Diamond Viper 770 32mb
Matrox Millenium2 2mb
SBLive! Value
20gb Seagate
6gb WDCaviar
1.2gb Seagate
Pioneer 32x CD-R (Slot)
Realtek RTL8029AS 10mbit
MAG 15DLS 15"
Osborne MO117 17"
 
Using 100% Australian Made recyclable electrons
 
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Thats some dumping actions by taiwan and korea memory giants, to clear up stocks as well as to make way for the upcoming memory tansitions to DDR and RDRAM

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BTW, I got mine 128MB stick at US$35, they are dumping at US$2 for each 64Mb ram chip, so the baseline is around US$33-35 for a 128MB stick