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To: StanX Long who wrote (61886)	3/11/2002 11:56:41 PM
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Memory-Chip Price May Drop; NEC, Other PC Makers See Sales Drop By Ian King quote.bloomberg.com Seoul, March 12 (Bloomberg) -- NEC Corp., Trigem Computer Inc. and other personal computer makers say a rally in memory-chip prices may end because it was driven by their marketing strategy of boosting computing power, not a pickup in PC sales. Prices of benchmark memory chips rose as much as 89 percent this year as computer makers almost doubled the main memory of each machine, even though few programs require such power. PC makers say the rise in chip prices may stop them from adding more memory and that sales may slow next quarter. ``Rather than demand from consumers, it's the fact that PC makers have been putting twice as much memory in each machine'' that has pushed chip prices up, said Kwon Youn Hak, a finance team official at Trigem, the largest PC producer by capacity.