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...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...
...Washington for high technology, Japan is the country that has it. The Soviet Union is free to choose between Japan and the U.S. for high technology, just as we are free to choose between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In fact, the U.S. can't make reliable one-megabit chips. Japan is the only country that can mass-produce high-performance semiconductors. When I said this at the party, the Americans turned pale. But let me remind you that I was only responding to American threats that Soviet- American detente left no room for Japan...
...companies currently account for only 10% of the world's production of the most advanced DRAM chip, the one megabit, which has enough memory to contain the equivalent of 100 pages of double-spaced text. The new venture, called U.S. Memories, plans to manufacture the next generation: the four- megabit chip. Last week IBM disclosed that it is already producing the more powerful semiconductor for use in its own computers and other products. That may give IBM a lead of several months over its Japanese rivals, who have yet to gear up mass production of the four-megabit semiconductor...