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To: TideGlider who wrote (11218)	12/8/1997 9:35:00 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 25960

Less fab building, more technology upgrades in Japan. They have now resumed equipment buying, mainly for technology upgrades of their fabs. But this spring's sudden capital spending moratorium may have forced Japanese fabs into a "catch-up mode," the equipment executive said. ... Most of the Japanese chip makers had slowed their push to quarter-micron processing and were working on the new technology only for the next-generation 64-megabit lines. This meant many of their mainstay 16-megabit fabs were running on 0.5-micron lines that were highly vulnerable to the shrink efforts at Micron and other competitors. But now Japanese vendors are rushing to catch up by using newer processes and even quarter-micron lines to turn out lowercost 16-megabit DRAMs. techweb.com