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To: Thomas G. Busillo who wrote (26410)	1/12/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

01-13-98 : Price of 16M DRAM Rebounds The spot-market price for 16-megabyte dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips has been rebounding since the start of the year on diminishing supplies, business sources said yesterday. The price of 16M DRAM chips, which at one point declined to $2-level per unit, has recently risen up to 70 percent, they said. In the last three or four days alone, prices of some DRAM products were known to have risen 25 to 30 percent. The spot price of in Taiwan, which plummeted to $1.8 per unit, rose again to $2.5 to $2.6 per unit. The domestic semiconductor industry will be able to heave a sigh of relief as manufacturers experienced an unprecedented liquidity shortfall after the launching of IMF-led retrenchment drive, an official said. The price hike is partly attributed to the decline in supply of 16M DRAM as semiconductor producers both at home and abroad are pursuing a generation shift from 16M DRAM to m DRAM, observers said. Meanwhile, the chip makers have been attempting to prevent the prices from dipping too low since Micron Technology of the United States is reportedly moving to slap antidumping charges against the semiconductor makers of Korea, Japan and Taiwan. Copyright 1998 Korea Herald. All rights reserved.