[soc.culture.japan] 1st 64 Megabit DRAM

dankg@typhoon.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) (06/11/90)

In article <16348@smunews.UUCP> leff@smu.seas.smu.edu (leff) writes:
>From NYT, June 8, 1990, page C1
>
>Hitachi Ltd, said today that it was the first to ... achieve:  a working prototype
>of a memory chip that can store more than 64 million bits of information.  
>...Most experts have predicted that the first 64-megabit chips would not be 
>ready until 1995.  
>
>...comprises 140 million electronic devices, onto a surface that measures
>9.74 millimeters by 20.28 millimeters.  ... built with circuits ... 0.3
>micron wide.
>
>...etched with electron beams ...

	I read the same article, too.  And surprised to find any other
news sources reported that news I encountered:  It wasn't mentioned in
CNN's Science & Technology Week and its periodical news updates, not
on San Francisco Chronicle (this one I'm not sure) and other massmedia.
To bigger surprise, I coundn't find it on comp.arch, comp.lsi and other
newsgroups.
	I want more info so I excerpted this artice to other newsgroup
(I intended to do so but there was a post already).  Follow-up is
comp.arch so please give us more info/flame/et al.

Dan Kogai (dankg@ocf.berkeley.edu)