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To: Kathleen capps who wrote (31439)	3/30/1998 2:41:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

Fujitsu, Hitachi Reportedly Phasing Out DRAM Production In Europe TOKYO -(Dow Jones)- Fujitsu Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd. will stop making DRAM chips in Europe by 2000, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Tuesday, and will switch production to microcontrollers and other more sophisticated chips. Slumping prices of the mainstream memory chips, dynamic random access memories, have hurt profit margins badly, the financial newspaper reported. The companies expect to suffer operating losses of tens of billion yen in their semiconductor divisions in the year through March. Fujitsu (FJTSY) and Hitachi (HIT) hope to cut DRAM-related costs by halting production in Europe and reducing new investment. Fujitsu is producing 2.5 million of 4- and 16-megabit chips a month at its United Kingdom plant, but plans to shift that subsidiary entirely to microcontrollers in 2000, company officials said. Hitachi is making 16-megabit DRAMs at a German fabrication plant, which will shift briefly to 64-megabit chips and then scale down output from autumn 1999 until DRAM production ends entirely in 2000. Instead, the plant will turn out microcontrollers for IC cards and other products, boosting microcontroller output to 90% of the plant's total production in autumn 1999, company officials said.