Intel, NMB amend pact on chip supply

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Intel Corp and Japan's NMB Semiconductor Co agree to amend their alliance to increase sales of Intel-designed products in Japan. Similar agreements are expected between other US and Japanese semiconductor companies in coming weeks. In negotiations with the US, the Japanese seem more willing than they had been to meet demands for a 20 percent US market share in Japan, though Japanese negotiators continue to publicly reject the idea of a market share figure. Bush administration representatives also seem more flexible, apparently being willing to view a 20 percent figure as one measure of compliance rather than the only measure. The new Intel-NMB agreement itself specifies that NMB will no longer supply Intel with memory chips. Instead, NMB will make 'memory cards' that will be sold under Intel's name.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Foreign operations, Intel Corp., INTC, Memory, Market share, Cooperative Agreements, NMB Semiconductor Company Ltd.

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Japan's chip makers take glut in stride despite U.S., Korean price competition

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Japan's major chip makers are not concerned with the recent slump in demand for DRAMs despite intense price competition from US and South Korean companies. Unable to keep up with the price cutting, many Japanese companies are diversifying into SRAM technology, gate-arrays, microcontrollers and new DRAM chips that hold 4M-bits of information. In the US and Europe, Japanese chip prices are regulated, but Korean companies can price as aggressively as they wish. In recent weeks Samsung, Motorola and Intel have been forcing the price down to as low as $6 a chip. Demand for DRAMs in 1990 could fall 18 percent below 1989 figures and although many Japanese chip makers are sure the demand will increase again, analysts warn that a US recession could spell disaster.

Economic aspects, Semiconductor chips, Marketing, International trade, International competition (Commerce), DRAM (Dynamic random access memory), DRAM, Market Analysis, Foreign Competition

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Japan aims to show that chip market is open to the West

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The Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry announces that the foreign share of Japanese chip purchases reached a record 12.9 percent in the 4th qtr of 1989. The Japanese see this as evidence that their semiconductor market is opening up, responding to American technology-trade pressures. Americans, for their part, want a higher share. Meanwhile, AT&T and NEC Corp agree to cooperate in semiconductor products. The companies will exchange technology on a range of integrated circuits and will market their products worldwide.

T, Statistics, NEC Corp., American Telephone and Telegraph Co., Technology transfer, Japan. Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Integrated Circuits

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