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To: grok who wrote (29680)	9/16/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 93625

nec...more detail unclewest TOKYO, JAPAN, 1999 SEP 16 (Newsbytes) -- By Martyn Williams, Newsbytes. NEC Corp. [TOKYO:6701] said today it plans to ramp up production of 128 megabit DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips from two million per month to eight million per month between now and next summer. The increase in production will also see NEC moving from conventional type DRAM chips to Direct Rambus DRAM chips - a type of memory chip favored by Intel Corp. [NASDAQ:INTC] for use with its processors. Of the two million 128 megabit DRAM chips the company currently produces, around 10 percent are Rambus DRAM chips although NEC is expecting this to rise to around 50 percent by next summer and to rise even further in the latter half of 2000. While production of 128 megabit chips increase, NEC plans to decrease production of currently popular 64 megabit chips. At present the company manufactures 10 million such chips per month but is expecting this figure to halve by summer 2000. NEC also plans to begin commercial production of a 256 megabit Direct Rambus DRAM later this year. A spokesman for the company said it was seeing prices for memory chips steadily rising after heavy price pressure in the first few months of the current financial year, which began in April. The spot price of memory chips has been around $13 per chip in recent days although this price is generally higher and more volatile than the contract-based prices that NEC and other major chip manufacturers receive for their chips.