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To: yard_man who wrote (35981)	7/7/1998 11:06:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 53903

LG Semicon Enjoy Brisk Demands for High-speed Synchronous DRAMs 07/07 The memory semiconductor industry has been down for at least a couple of years now but demands for high-speed memory devices are constantly increasing, especially due to the introduction of Windows 98. According to LG Semicon, the market is being oversupplied with conventional dynamic random access memory chips but there is a shortage of high-speed synchronous DRAMs _ those with processing speeds of over 100 megahertz. ''Currently, 90 percent of our production of 64megabit DRAMs meet PC100 requirements. The production of 6.2 million chips per month is the largest in the world,'' one LG official explained. PC100 chips are designed to support high-speed personal computers whose processing speed is often confined to the speed of the memory device, thus nullifying much of the power of advanced microprocessors. Owing to the fact that there are few companies around the world with the technology to produce the high-speed synchronous DRAM chips, they fetch prices that are about 20 percent higher than conventional DRAMs. The LG official said demand for the high-speed synchronous DRAMs have been high as it is but the introduction of the new operating system, Windows 98, by Microsoft is creating new and explosive demands. LG has focused consistently on the production of high-speed memory devices and its production percentage of 90 percent is considerable higher than the 30-50 percent of other top semiconductor makers, he said. Owing to the shortage in the supply of the high-speed memory chips, they are fetching an average of $10 as compared to $8.50 for conventional DRAM chips and the prices are increasing due to explosive demand. Along with the production of the high-speed synchronous DRAM chips, LG is planning to launch the commercial production of direct Rambus DRAM chips with a processing speed of 800MHz from the second half of next year. This is a 64 megabyte memory module consisting of eight PC100 high-speed synchronous DRAM chips produced by LG Semicon.