Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!gatech!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!ENCORE.COM!bzs From: bzs@ENCORE.COM (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: is that an LED at the end of the tunnel? Message-ID: <8811291610.AA03532@multimax.encore.com> Date: 29 Nov 88 16:10:36 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 19 [due to a mailer error most didn't get this, sorry for the repeat to some of you...consider it a test -B] ...From Computerworld, November 14, p 156 (IN BRIEF) NEC Corp is slated to invest about $160 Million to establish a silicon-wafer diffusion-processing line for 16M-bit dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips...Toshiba Corp., Hitachi Ltd. and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. all announced at the beginning of the year that they had successfully developed 16M-bit DRAM technology but none of the three has yet revealed a schedule for sample production of the chip. Separately, NEC is studying the possibility of producing next-generation 4M-bit DRAM chips in the U.S., probably at its Roseville, Calif., subsidiary. -B