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To: 16yearcycle who wrote (32861)	10/18/1999 7:25:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Eugene, "Dell says memory pricing could affect operating margins. Pricing, availability issues with RAM, LCD supplies" In after-hours trading, the stock fell to 37 1/4. cbs.marketwatch.com G.

To: 16yearcycle who wrote (32861)	10/18/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 70976

NEC to add 0.13-micron fab line for Nintendo chip A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. TOKYO -- NEC Corp. today said it was building a new 0.13-micron processing line in empty space at the company's existing Fab 8 in Kyushu to make embedded DRAM chips for Nintendo Corp.'s next-generation Dolphin electronic game player. The new frontend processing line will be called Fab 9 but it will be co-located in the Fab 8 building. The processing line will have an initial capacity of 10,000 eight-inch wafers a month. NEC said it will invest $760 million in the new line. The embedded DRAM, however, will initially use only a 0.18-micron process to fabricate the Nintendo chip, which will have a graphics accelerator core developed by U.S.-based ArtX Co. and embedded DRAM operating at 200-MHz speed. NEC said it has received a $2.5 billion multiyear order from Nintendo for the new chip. It could not be immediately learned what lithography process NEC plans to use to reach 0.13-micron design rules in the new frontend line. Also NEC didn't disclose the density of embedded DRAM memory on the graphics chip. The device will have a transfer rate of 3.2 gigabits/second, twice as fast as the Direct Rambus DRAM memory used by Sony in its upcoming PlayStation-II game player Nintendo said earlier that its Dolphin player will use a 400-MHz PowerPC microprocessor made by IBM Corp.'s Microelectronics Division. --Jack Robertson reporting from U.S. 204.247.196.14