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To: unclewest who wrote (11105)	12/3/1998 9:42:00 PM
From: MileHigh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Thread, This is another article on Toshiba/Fujitsu. I had asked about RDRAM implications, I guess there are none....Any feedback appreciated... Toshiba teams up with Fujitsu for 1-Gigabit DRAM By Jack Robertson Electronic Buyers' News (12/03/98, 10:32:49 AM EDT) TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. have formed an alliance to jointly develop a 1-gigabit DRAM. The new alliance will also consider joint development of other advanced semiconductors for computers and consumer electronic products.Both firms said that they will invest a combined $250 million in the initial 1-Gbit DRAM effort. Kazunari Shirai, Fujitsu managing director and president of the LSD Devices group, said the joint DRAM development will minimize risks and accelerate the project by sharing resources. The two firms hope to have sample 1-Gbit chips available early in 2002. Toshiba was a long-standing DRAM development partner with IBM Corp. and Siemens Semiconductors, especially in designing the 256-Mbit chip. However, there was strong indications last year that the Japanese firm was sharply reducing its role in that alliance, when it decided to pursue 1-Gbit development on its own. It wasn't clear how Toshiba's new partnership with Fujitsu will affect the technology exchange with IBM and Siemens. Toshiba will be switching from trench capacitor DRAM architecture used by IBM and Siemens to a stacked capacitor design. Fujitsu, although producing about half the number of DRAMs as Toshiba, uses stacked technology.