American IC Exchange Selected as Source of Market Intelligence for the Asian Wall Street Journal.Business Editors ALISO VIEJO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2000 Only Open-market Distributor Quoted for DRAM Spot Market Pricing American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of IC Exchange ("AICE AICE American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise AICE Advanced International Certificate of Education AICE American Institute of Chemical Engineers AICE Association for Innovative Cooperation in Europe AICE American Institute of Consulting Engineers ")(www.aice.com), a global leader in the distribution of commodity semiconductors and computer products, announced that The Asian Wall Street Journal has selected it as a source for its Dynamic Random Access Memory Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a type of random access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. Since real capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically. (DRAM) spot market pricing. Based on AICE's market intelligence as an online open market distributor of ICs, the company is able to provide real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. pricing data on DRAM, a memory type found in personal computers and a major export for the Asian region. AICE is the only open-market distributor to provide daily 64 or 128 Mb DRAM chip pricing for the publication's daily Market Diary report found on the front page of the Money & Investing section. Used as an indicator for the computer industry, DRAM pricing is featured in the market index alongside other major global commodities including gold, oil and wheat. "The Asian Wall Street Journal's reference to our market data further solidifies AICE's role as a global source of information on the memory components industry," said Jim Binford, president of AICE. "This renowned international publication reaches financial market watchers in over 15 Asian cities. This is a vital audience as DRAM is a strategic commodity to the Asian marketplace." In an effort to help analysts, editors and customers gauge the financial outlook of the computer chip manufacturing market, AICE provides real-time commodity pricing on its RAMDEX(TM) website. Launched in 1996, RAMDEX is the first Internet-based service tracking DRAM pricing and changed forever how DRAM was bought and sold throughout all channels. Today, RAMDEX is recognized worldwide as the leading source of open market pricing information for the semiconductor industry and includes common types of ICs, including DRAMs, SRAMs, modules, flash and CPUs. Updated twice daily, RAMDEX is also the most current resource. It is relied on heavily by industry insiders including analysts and editors for accurate market intelligence. The company also supplies pricing data on the IC worldwide market to the Bloomberg Bloomberg A major global provider of 24-hour financial news and information including real-time and historic price data, financials data, trading news and analyst coverage, as well as general news and sports. LP Financial Markets Commodities News Service, Global Sources and the San Jose Mercury News The San Jose Mercury News is the major daily newspaper in San Jose, California and Silicon Valley. The paper is owned by MediaNews Group. Its headquarters and printing plant are located in North San Jose next to the Nimitz Freeway (Interstate 880). . About AICE American IC Exchange (AICE) is a global leader in the distribution of commodity semiconductors and computer products. AICE was the first company to offer an Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the service (RAMDEX)(TM) to help the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customer eliminate the guesswork from buying and selling on the global spot market. For more information, contact American IC Exchange, 27 Journey, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656. Tel: 949/362-6555, Toll-Free: 800/ 229-7690, Fax: 949/425-5097, Website: www.aice.com. |
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