Word: megabit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most promising future growth area for the low-orbit-satellite phone market will be the Internet. If the Net keeps expanding at its current pace, companies figure that demand for digital connections will skyrocket. Currently, firms in the U.S. pay about $1,000 a month for a 1.5 megabit-per-second pipeline to the Internet. Eventually, satellites should be able to provide an equivalent uplink at one-tenth the cost. Some analysts even see rates plummeting to $50 a month in the future...
...worldwide economic slump, so have the fortunes of Japanese chip companies. At NEC, profits are down 71%; at Toshiba, earnings are off 39%. As a result, the Japanese have retreated from some markets. Fujitsu, for example, is closing its U.S. chipmaking plant in San Diego. The factory made one-megabit memory ! chips, whose price has plunged in the wake of overproduction by South Korean firms. Japanese firms have recently had to contend with stiff competition from low-cost producers in Taiwan as well. They have also fumbled: Toshiba invented flash technology, but Intel picked up the idea and ran with...
...lately because some of its big customers, including Unisys, have been in decline. IBM has been busy lining up other partnerships as well. Only a day after announcing its deal with Apple, IBM said it would join forces with Germany's Siemens A.G. to produce a powerful new 16-megabit memory chip, which will hold four times as much data as current models. The collaboration could give IBM-Siemens a leg up in the race against Japanese companies to bring the new chip to market...
...could be a mixed blessing for all those addicted to the Mario Bros. series of home-video games -- and a cash-register bonanza for the Japanese company that sells them. The new game (approximate cost: $50) will require different hardware: a one-megabit Super Family Computer (approximate cost: $165) to be unveiled in Japan this November. The machine will have stereo sound and the ability to display 32,768 color gradations, up from 52 in the old model. Eager customers should know that the upgraded hardware will not play the old Nintendo cassettes, some 350 million of which have been...
...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...