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To: TREND1 who wrote (35365)	6/18/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 53903

the deal will make it the world's largest DRAM producer, surpassing Korea's Samsung Electronics Micron currently holds about 11 percent of the world DRAM market and stands to gain the six percent of that market now held by TI. it could take up to 18 months for Micron to convert all of TI's fabs to its own process technology, but that Micron intends to do just that. TI's TwinStar fab in Richardson, Texas, which it plans to close an assembly and test plant in Singapore, which Micron will also shutter Both companies are betting that an eventual upswing in the DRAM business will help them reap a profit from the deal. "We firmly believe there will continue to be a DRAM cycle, and supply and demand will come back into balance," said Aylesworth. eet.com