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To: Scumbria who wrote (65644)	2/8/2001 10:01:58 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Toshiba To More Than Triple High-Speed DRAM Production Dow Jones Newswires February 8, 2001 TOKYO -- Toshiba Corp. (J.TOS or 6502) will reconfigure its memory chip manufacturing operations by boosting production of high-speed dynamic random access memories and cutting output of commodity-grade DRAMs, a company spokesman said Friday. The Japanese electronics maker will increase production of Direct Rambus DRAMs, which have a data-transfer speed of more than twice that of older DRAMs. Toshiba said it plans to boost its monthly production of Rambus DRAMs to 8 million units (on 128-megabit memory conversion) by the end of September from the current 2.3 million units. Rambus DRAM output will account for about 62% of its overall monthly DRAM production of 13 million units at the end of September, the spokesman said. Toshiba also plans to almost halve its monthly output of lower-grade DRAMs to 5 million units by the end of September, the official said. The production shift will take place at its chip plants in Yokkaichi, central Japan, and Virginia in the U.S. "This reflects our expectations that Intel Corp.'s (INTC) move will sharply raise demand for Rambus DRAMs in the personal computer market, where the demand had been sluggish," the spokesman said. Intel is procuring Rambus DRAMs for its new microprocessing unit "Pentium 4". In other words, "it (demand growth for Rambus DRAM) will depend on the Pentium 4," the official added. -By Kanji Ishibashi, Dow Jones Newswires