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Japanese companies have dominated the market for computer memory chips since the mid-1980s, but they may soon be facing stiffer competition from the U.S. and Europe. Last week IBM and West Germany's Siemens said they will join forces to develop a chip with a capacity of 64 million bits of information, or four times as much as today's experimental 16-megabit chips...
...Siemens-IBM venture is a welcome boost for the U.S. high-tech industry, which has suffered from a downturn in corporate spending on research and development. According to a study by the National Science Foundation, the growth in U.S. research spending in 1989 failed to keep pace with inflation for the first time since 1975. U.S. outlays rose 3.4% last year, to $68.8 billion, but inflation hit 4.6%. Among reasons for the downturn is the relatively high level of U.S. interest rates, which increases the cost of financing research, and corporate America's emphasis on short-term results...
Montana helps a crippled child engineer a hostile takeover of IBM. Sweating lightly, Elway confounds Manuel Noriega's lawyers. In the locker rooms, impartial observers from the National Bureau of Standards watch all the other players put on their pants, one leg at a time. Reporters dance left; photographers dance right...
Murray S. Camppell, an IBM researcher who helped develop Deep Thought, said he thought its chances of winning the match were "at best...
...Another IBM scientist involved with the project, Feng-hsiung Hsu, said that the final barriers that prevent computers from regularly defeating humans would be overcome in the next two to four years...