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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (29789)	10/9/1998 4:37:00 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 33344

VCM sounds like a like a decent memory solution. October 9, 1998 Dow Jones Newswires TOKYO -- Japan's NEC Corp. (NIPNY or 6701) confirmed it will purchase chip sets from three major Taiwanese microchip makers from January. The chip sets will be used in a new high-speed dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip NEC has designed. The three Taiwanese firms are Acer Laboratories Inc. (Q.ACE), Silicon Integrated Systems (Q.SLN) and VIA Technologies Inc. Chip sets control signal traffic between a PC's microprocessor and its DRAM chips. NEC aims to sell between 40 and 50 million of the new memory chips next fiscal year. It intends to market the chips to major personal computer makers, a NEC spokesman said. NEC was also in talks with Intel Corp. (INTC) about the chip set project, but instead reached an agreement with the Taiwanese companies about making the chip sets, the spokesman said. Background: Peter Gillingham, director of business development at Mosaid, spoke in support of VCM. "It is an option that can reduce the latency on a cache miss from 50 to 60 nanoseconds down to about 15 ns." eetimes.com A potent combination may be developing: AMD's K6-2, or the Super7-compliant Cyrix MII processors from National Semiconductor's Cyrix division (Dallas), with VCM-SDRAMs, using core logic and motherboards from Taiwan's chip-set and motherboard vendors. techweb.com Product Brief: nec.com