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Strategies & Market Trends : Graham and Doddsville -- Value Investing In The New Era

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Nikon, IBM jointly develop new stepper component

TOKYO, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Nikon Corp <7731.T> said on
Wednesday that it and International Business Machines Corp
had jointly developed a lens, a component of stepper
machines, that would help produce 16 gigabit dynamic
random-access memories (DRAMs).
Nikon said in a statement that the memories of 16 gigabit
DRAMs would be about 250 times those of typical 64 megabit DRAMs.
Steppers are used to map out circuits on silicon wafers for
making semiconductors.
Nikon, the world's biggest stepper maker, plans to make
prototype steppers that use the new lens in 2002 or 2003, a Nikon
spokesman said.
By 2005 or 2006, Nikon expects to commercialise the stepper,
he said.
Nikon's share price rose nine from Tuesday's close to 1,482
yen at 11 a.m. (0200 GMT).
((Tokyo Equities Desk +81-3 3432 9404
tokyo.equities.newsroom@reuters.com))
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