I.B.M. in chip deal with Toshiba and Siemens
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IBM will join in the development of memory chips for the next century with Toshiba of Japan and Siemens of Germany. The joint development work will occur at the IBM semiconductor factory in East Fishkill, NY. There are no current plans for joint manufacturing. Changes in the international climate, coupled with the rising costs and risks of developing chips led to the cooperative agreement among companies that have been fierce competitors. A manufacturing plant capable of making today's most advanced chips costs around $500 million to build; the cost is expected to rise to $1 billion by the turn of the century. The new chips will store 256 million bits of data, the equivalent of 10,000 pages of printed text. The increased capacity is expected to aid in the development of computer speech recognition, machine vision and computer reasoning. They are expected to be produced using a new ultraviolet technology. Memory chips are the foundation of the computer industry and increasingly important in the consumer electronics industry.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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Waiting for even cheaper PC's
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Potential computer buyers are waiting until the next big price cuts before purchasing systems. Sales at some computer outlets have been down ten percent from the recessionary lows of 1991. This is a surprising trend because microcomputer prices have dropped up to 40 percent between Jun 1992 and Jul 1992. Some customers are waiting for IBM to drop its prices. IBM is expected to offer clones in Europe and Canada with the Ambra nameplate. The most recent price war began when Compaq dropped its prices. The company originally had a low price of $2,000, but that was reduced to $899 for a low-end computer. Some customers do recognize the unusual opportunity and have purchased new systems.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1992
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New product from I.B.M
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IBM, normally secretive about its marketing plans, announces it will introduce a workstation by late 1989 or early 1990. The workstation, which will cost up to $20,000 each, will rival the power of some older mainframe computers. The lowest-end workstation in the series will perform 20 million instructions per second. IBM's new line will compete with Sun Microsystems Inc, HP and DEC in the workstation market. The market, now valued at $4-5 billion, may grow to $22.3 billion by 1992.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1989
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