Prototypes of new chip from Japan: product may become a standard in a market

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The Japanese companies Fujitsu Ltd, NEC Corp, Toshiba Corp and Hitachi Ltd separately developed the first 256M-bit memory chips. The chips are prototype dynamic random access memory chips (DRAMs) that can store 64 times the amount of information as standard 4M-bit chips. This development may mean Japan will keep its lead in the memory chip market, but analysts say the development indicates little because the chips will not be mass produced until around 1988 and because the chips that are mass produced may not be much like the prototypes, especially since the market will first produce 16M-bit and then 64M-bit chips. NEC, Toshiba and Hitachi will present their chips at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco in Feb 1993; Fujitsu's paper was not accepted.

Semiconductors and related devices, Innovations, Integrated circuits, Toshiba Corp., Integrated circuit fabrication, NEC Corp., Hitachi Ltd., Product introduction, Fujitsu Ltd., Memory management, Dynamic random access memory, DRAM (Dynamic random access memory), DRAM, Prototype, New Technique, Storage Capacity

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Executives say Japanese may be dumping chips

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Some US semiconductor executives are warning that Japanese competitors are dumping chips on the US market below the cost of producing them. The allegations, for which no proof is given, could further muddle the testy trade relations between the two countries. The US executives are already angry about their inability to penetrate the Japanese market. For 3rd qtr 1991, US companies held a one-seventh share of the Japanese market. US firms dropped out of the market for dynamic random access (DRAM) memory chips amidst huge losses and complaints about Japanese dumping. US executives agree that dumping had not been a problem since the two countries agreed on a pact in 1986 that included setting floor prices on Japanese chips; those floor prices were abolished in 1991.

Cases, International aspects, International trade, International competition (Economics), Dumping (International trade), Market share, Japanese Competition, Semiconductor Industry, Dumping, Commercial

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