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To: TREND1 who wrote (34757)	6/11/1998 10:23:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (2) of 53903

NEC says pricing DRAMs to push shift to 64-megabit TOKYO, June 11 (Reuters) - NEC Corp (TOKYO:6701) said on Thursday it planned to set a minimum price for its 16-megabit dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips in a bid to shift demand toward 64-megabit DRAM chips. The market price of 16-megabit DRAM chips had already fallen below the cost of their manufacture, a NEC spokesman said. The spokesman did not give details of the current market price or the minimum price NEC would set for its chips. Japanese media has said 16-megabit DRAM chips were selling for around 480 yen in May, down from 22,000 yen in early 1992. Industry sources said other major Japanese chip makers were also setting minimum prices for 16-megabit DRAM chips. The spokesman said prices for NEC's 64-megabit DRAM chips were also currently below cost, but that the situation could improve as new technology would this year allow the company to halve its production costs. In May, NEC said it would double its production of 64-megabit DRAM chips to 10 million a month by the end of December, while halving output of 16-megabit DRAM chips to four million.

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