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To: Frank Byers who wrote (7171)	12/15/1999 7:29:00 PM
From: CrazyTrain	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14464

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Dec 15, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Ramtron International Corporation (Nasdaq:RMTR) announced today that on December 13, 1999 it raised approximately $5.4 million in a private placement of its common stock and warrants. In the private placement, investors purchased approximately 953,000 units consisting of one share of Ramtron common stock and two warrants to purchase common stock. The first warrant allows for the purchase of one share of common stock at $10.80, and the second warrant allows for the purchase of one share of common stock at $16.20. Both warrants expire in two years. Ramtron plans to use the net proceeds of the equity placement to fund working capital and for general corporate purposes, including continued research and development, manufacturing and marketing of its ferroelectric random access memory (FRAM(R)) and enhanced dynamic random access memory (EDRAM(R)) technologies. For more information about Ramtron and its products, contact: Communications Department, Ramtron International Corporation, 1850 Ramtron Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, 80921. Telephone is 800-545-FRAM (3726); FAX is 719-481-9294; E-mail address is info@ramtron.com. Homepage is ramtron.com. Note to Editors: "FRAM" and "EDRAM" are registered trademarks of Ramtron International Corporation. Copyright (C) 1999 Business Wire. All rights reserved.

To: Frank Byers who wrote (7171)	12/17/1999 2:01:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 14464

Samsung preps FRAM as possible flash replacement By Robert Ristelhueber EE Times (12/07/99, 10:39 a.m. EDT) SUWON, South Korea ? Samsung Electronics plans to enter the ferroelectric RAM market next year with a 32-megabit device that could be used as a replacement for flash memory in cell phones, a company executive said. Samsung has been working on FRAM at its Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) here, which does research for many of the company's groups. SAIT developed a 4-Mbit part that was transferred to Samsung's semiconductor group, which elected not to market the device in favor of a denser part, said Young Joon Gil, general manager of SAIT. Commercial FRAMs have generally been marketed to date in very low densities, such as 16 kilobit, but a number of Japanese companies are known to be developing much higher densities, said Victor De Dios, of market research firm De Dios & Associates (Newark, Calf.). If Samsung introduces a 32-Mbit part in 2000, it could capture the FRAM density lead, he said. Battery charge Samsung also is preparing to enter the lithium polymer battery market, Gil said. A pilot production plant has been set up in Choson, Korea, and large-scale production could take place in 2000. The batteries would be marketed by the Samsung Display Interface operation. Samsung would be the first Korean supplier to participate in the lithium polymer business, where Japanese companies have taken the lead in developing the thin, flexible batteries.