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To: Don Green who wrote (61307)	11/15/2000 7:32:00 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Nanya Technology to Support Memory Standard That Rivals Rambus' By George Hsu Taipei, Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Nanya Technology Corp., one of Taiwan's largest computer memory chipmakers, said it will use a technology in its chips that rivals U.S.-based Rambus Inc.'s designs to speed the flow of data in a personal computer. Nanya said it will start commercial production of 128-megabit and 256-megabit chips early next year with so-called double-data- rate, or DDR, memory that some chipmakers say runs twice as fast as current chips. Chipmakers such as Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have focused on boosting the speed of processors - the main chip in a computer - to make PCs work faster. Those efforts have progressed so well that those chips now run 10 times faster than memory devices, creating a bottleneck in machines that limits performance enhancements. To fix that, chipmakers are endorsing new memory designs like DDR and another by Rambus. ``The DDR standard provides an advanced memory solution for high-performance computing,'' Nanya Technology spokesman Charles Kau said. Memory chips store data in a computer, while chipsets act as intermediaries between a computer's components, such as the processor, memory and other devices. New memory technologies such as Rambus or DDR require chipsets supporting those standards in order to function in a computer. Taiwan's Via Technologies Inc., the world's No. 2 chipset designer after Intel Corp., said earlier this month it would not adopt Rambus' memory chip standards because the alternatives are cheaper. Memory chips using the DDR are about half the price of chips using Rambus designs, according to Via Technologies.