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To: Stephen Swantz who wrote (17232)	4/29/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 25960

Good analogy Steve. Hitachi and .18 micron....... techweb.cmp.com Posted: 3:00 p.m., EST, 4/29/98 Hitachi to kick off 0.18-micron production By Yoshiko Hara TOKYO - Hitachi Ltd. will launch 0.18-micron production at its Naka Works by the end of this year. The line was designed to produce either memory or logic products on the same fab line, and the company plans to make 256-Mbit flash memories, super-shrink 64-Mbit DRAMs, SH-4 RISC processors and ASICs with embedded DRAM. "The 64-Mbit DRAM will be about 40 square millimeters, the smallest in the industry," said a Hitachi spokesman. Hitachi will sample the 256-Mbit flash IC early next year, and plans to ramp production to the 500,000 units-per-month level by the middle of next year. Two 256-Mbit flash memories deliver 64 Mbytes of capacity; nearly half the storage of the audio MiniDisc's 140 Mbytes. Hitachi intends to cultivate new flash memory applications, such as audio storage. The 0.18-micron line is an upgraded 0.25-micron line that was used to fabricate 64-Mbit DRAMs, at a cost of about $770 million.