Texas Instruments to work with Hitachi

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Hitachi Ltd and Texas Instruments Inc say they will work together at Texas Instrument's Miho, Japan-based subsidiary over the next 10 years to design 64M-bit memory chips. The chips can store 2,800 pages of printed text. The research effort is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars at a time when intense competition and falling prices have hurt the semiconductor industry. Since Dec 1988, the two corporations have cooperated on research for 16M-bit dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips. The corporations will not work together on manufacturing the 64M-bit chips, because Texas Instruments is a member of the Sematech consortium, which aims to surpass the Japanese semiconductor industry by 1993.

Research, Industrial research, Memory, Hitachi Ltd., Dynamic random access memory, DRAM (Dynamic random access memory), DRAM, Research and Development, Cooperative Agreements, HIT

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Deal in advanced TV by Texas Instruments

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The Japanese subsidiary of Texas Instruments (TI) signs an agreement with Japan Broadcasting Corp (NHK) to acquire the chip design needed in HDTV technology. The financial terms have not been disclosed but TI says it will pay for the design. The agreement is the first of its kind to emerge from the Japanese government's efforts to get Japanese high technology companies to buy more electronic components from US companies. Trade analysts doubt the TI-NHK contract will lead to a flood of such agreements. TI estimates the global market for HDTV chips will grow from zero in 1989 to $3.5 billion by 1993 and to $10 billion in 2000.

Television broadcasting stations, Japan, Semiconductor chips, Integrated circuits, Television broadcasting, Equipment and supplies, Economic policy, International trade, High-definition television, High definition television, Technology transfer, Semiconductor Industry, Japan Broadcasting Corp.

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I.B.M. sets joint deal in automation; Texas Instruments in factory venture

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Texas Instruments (TI) and IBM announce they will jointly seek contracts to automate large factory operations. Sources says the announcement may be in response to Japanese and European electronics companies making similar agreements and competing directly with US companies. Manufacturing industry insiders hail the move and a TI spokesman says the two companies will focus on the automotive, aerospace and electronics industries.

Manufacturing industries, not elsewhere classified, Manufacturing industry, Manufacturing industries, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Technology application, Manufacturing, Automation, Joint Venture

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