mishedlo > NEC Denies Report of 128Mb Direct Rambus DRAM Production Termination
July 12, 2000 (TOKYO) -- NEC Corp. on July 11 issued a statement refuting a report in the morning edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun that it plans to halt production of 128Mb Direct Rambus DRAM (D-RDRAM).
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I subscribe to the Nikkei Shimbum and can find no ref to that article?? So Nikkei didn't seem to care what NEC stated.. Maybe it is like Clinton saying, I did not have sex with that women?? We all now, know the truth
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Monday, July 10, 2000
NEC Suspends DRDRAM Making On Poor Demand Outlook
TOKYO (Nikkei)--NEC Corp. (6701) has halted production of 128-megabit Direct Rambus DRAMs used in personal computers because it believes they cannot compete against cheaper synchronous DRAMs, currently the most widely used chip in the industry.
The company will begin producing synchronous DRAMs on lines that until recently had turned out the Direct Rambus high-speed chips.
DRDRAMs transmit data at higher speeds than synchronous chips, but they are about twice as expensive.
NEC began volume production of the advanced chips late last year, with high hopes to ship 1.5-2.0 million chips per month to PC makers starting in September.
NEC ranked as the world's No. 2 producer of DRDRAMs, after Samsung Electronics Co., but Intel Corp.'s introduction in late June of a new chipset compatible with synchronous DRAMs has boosted overall demand for synchronous chips.
The NEC production halt is, however, not permanent. The firm will mass-produce 288-megabit DRDRAMs compatible with Intel's Pentium 4 microprocessor, slated to be launched late this year, the sources said.
(The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Tuesday morning edition) |
