Six of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers have announced that...

Six of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers have announced that they will collaborate to develop new technology for the most widely used type of memory chip in personal computers. This move was prompted by increasing product development costs. The group includes Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. from the U.S., NEC Corp. from Japan, Samsung Electronics Co. and Hyundai Electronics Industries Co. from South Korea, and Infineon Technologies AG, a unit of Germany's Siemens AG. Excluding Intel, is primarily focused on microprocessors, these six companies control about 70% of the global DRAM (dynamic random access memory) market, which was valued at $21 billion in the previous year, according to research firm Dataquest Inc.

Monday, 17 January, 2000