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To: shane forbes who wrote (10937)	3/17/1998 7:30:00 AM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25814

Mitsubishi, Oki shift output to value-added chips 03:26 a.m. Feb 17, 1998 Eastern TOKYO, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Japanese electronics firms Mitsubishi Electric Corp and Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd said on Tuesday they are pinning their future hopes for the computer chip business on more value-added chips. The move away from general-use dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips comes at the time when major chip makers are suffering a sharp decline in earnings partly due to falling prices of DRAMs. Mitsubishi Electric said it is looking towards producing more custom-made products such as logic chips with built-in DRAMs. guide-p.infoseek.com o~~~ O

To: shane forbes who wrote (10937)	3/17/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 25814

Hitachi to phase out Japan DRAM output TOKYO, March 17 (Reuters) - Hitachi Ltd plans to concentrate its dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip production on ''certain overseas plants', eventually phasing out domestic DRAM output, said company president Tsutomu Kanai. Kanai told Reuters in a recent interview that DRAMs, the main memory of personal computers, have already passed their heyday. 'The days when the DRAM business was the centrepiece of the Japanese semiconductor industry have gone,'' Kanai said. 'Japanese chip makers will never thrive on the DRAM business.'' sjmercury.com o~~~ O