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To: John Rieman who wrote (30735)	3/11/1998 10:59:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Merged memory and logic. High performance and low power multimedia chips will use this technology. 03-12-98 Samsung Plans to Export $1 Billion Worth of Merged Memory Chips Samsung Electronics Co. plans to sharply expand the production of memory chips merged with logic devices, targeting about $1 billion in annual exports by 2001, a company spokesman said yesterday. Under this goal, Samsung will widen the scope of embedded memory chips, applying its merged chip technology not only to DRAMs but to SRAMs and flash memory chips, he said. The merged chips, technically called merged memory with logic (MML), will include merged SRAM with logic (MSL), merged flash memory with logic (MFL) and merged DRAM with logic (MDL). ''Samsung aims to complete research and development works on MSL and MFL by the end of the first half before launching commercial production in the fourth quarter,'' the spokesman said. ''By leading the world's merged memory chip technology, Samsung will step closer to the completion of an ultimatesemiconductor technology, dubbed system-on-a-chip (SOC) integration.'' He noted that Samsung's MML chips, with their focus put on miniaturization and high speed, are expected to create huge added values in the portable electronic goods and other high-performance products requiring high speed. Makers of telecom communicators, switches, PDAs and digital cameras have long asked for the full-scale supplies of merged memory chips. The world's MML market is projected to grow from $460 million in 1998 to $1.68 billion in 1999 and $7.75 billion in 2001.