Japanese Chip Hell as Prices Slide and Plant Closes.Last week was another bad week for the Japanese semiconductor market, with memory chip prices falling to their lowest level since last summer. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Nihon Industrial Daily, the spot prices of 64Mb 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. chips fell to around $7.5 per chip, the worst price since the $6.9 all time low of last June. On the domestic market, 64Mb DRAMs have hit their nadir and were priced between 900 yen ($7.61) and 920 yen ($7.79) on Friday. Meanwhile, Yamaha Corp has announced that it intends to shut its 0.35 micron process semiconductor fab See fab. in Hamamatsu, Japan by February next year. The plant only commenced production last June. Yamaha blamed the closure on the falling price of audio LSIs - the plant's main product - claiming that it could not afford further investment in the facility. The company is now looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a buyer for the plant. |
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