Vermont Research Ltd is making price cuts across its entire product range, and says that they reflect a continued fall in the costs of 1M-bit chips: the most significant cuts will be in Vermont’s 5.25 DRAMfile family where the cost per Mb has fallen to UKP90 from UKP197; an 80Mb DRAMfile comes in at UKP7,247, a reduction of 50%, and the 320Mb version is UKP34,000; the company has also announced that it is to distribute the Panther range of tape back-up systems from Tandberg Data A/S; it is the first time that the Leatherhead, Surrey-based company has taken on the distribution of another manufacturer’s product, and it plans to introduce a further three lines over the next six months; Tandberg’s systems are based on 5.25 form factor quarter inch technology, and Vermont is distributing the TDC 3600 and TDC 3800; both products come with AT and Micro Channel interfaces and storage capacities go from 60Mb to 525Mb with transfer rates of up to 2.4Mbps; prices start at UKP850 for the 60Mb system.
