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To: Mason Barge who wrote (6746)	8/19/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: David Rosenthal	Respond to of 10921

Mason, techweb.com >>>>> Toshiba To Cut DRAM Production By 30 Percent (08/19/98; 2:24 p.m. ET) By Staff, Electronic Buyers' News Toshiba plans to restrain Dynamic RAM production by 2001 to compose less than 50 percent of total memory chip output, down from the present 80 percent, the Japanese business newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Wednesday. As part of the scaleback, Toshiba this year will slow its ramp of 64-megabit DRAM from the current 3 million units a month to 7 million units monthly by March 1999, down from an originally projected 8 million monthly. The Japanese chip maker will correspondingly increase its flash memory output to a rate of 3 million 64-Mb chips a month by 2000. Toshiba is jumping into the NOR-flash market for wireless phone handsets and PC boot-up chips, as well as its long-standing NAND flash type for solid state storage to replace PC magnetic hard disks. Toshiba also is reportedly planning a three-fold increase in Static RAM production from the current 200,000 chips a month to a million chips monthly by 2001. Toshiba is the latest Japanese chip maker to accelerate goals to diversify away from heavy dependence on the currently unprofitable DRAMs. Earlier, Japanese firms said they would ramp up system-on-a-chip and highly integrated logic products to get out of the DRAM quagmire. >>>>>> Dave