Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!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: <8811290430.AA06788@multimax.encore.com> Date: 29 Nov 88 04:30:26 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 16 ...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 Rosevill, Calif., subsidiary. -B