Sega to use Hitachi chip in video game machine

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Sega Enterprises announces that Hitachi Ltd will make the 32-bit microprocessor for its next-generation video game player. While Hitachi is not known as a microprocessor maker, it does manufacture similar integrated circuits called microcontrollers, and has better access than Sega to the retail market in Japan. Sega plans to roll out its new machine, which industry analysts expect to include a CD-ROM drive and sell for about $500, in fall 1994. Just as Sega beat industry leader Nintendo to market with a 16-bit player, so its new machine will debut a year earlier than Nintendo's previously announced 64-bit, $250 player, based on a microprocessor from Silicon Graphics Inc's MIPS Technology subsidiary. Upstart 3DO Co plans to introduce its 32-bit, $700 player, manufactured by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, in Oct 1993, however, stealing a year's march of its own on Sega.

Games, toys, and children's vehicles, Product development, Microprocessor, CPUs (Central processing units), Video game industry, Video games industry, Hitachi Ltd., Sega Enterprises Ltd., CD-ROM disks, Competition, 32-Bit, Price, Video Game Systems, CD-ROM, Time to Market

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Toshiba and Samsung in deal on 'flash' chips

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Toshiba Corp will cooperate with Samsung Electronics Company Ltd, the South Korean semiconductor company, to develop flash memories. Under an eight-year agreement, Toshiba will provide technology and specifications, and Samsung will manufacture chips that are compatible with Toshiba's. In the week of Dec 14, 1992, Toshiba signed a similar agreement with National Semiconductor Corp. Toshiba is contracting with other companies to make its chips and to position its product as an industry standard. Flash chips do not lose information stored in them when a computer's power is shut down. Such chips could eventually replace magnetic disk drives. Toshiba invented the flash chip, but Intel Corp currently dominates the market for them.

Toshiba Corp., Samsung Electronics Company Ltd., Flash memory

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I.B.M. chip is licensed to Micron

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IBM will license the technology for making four-megabit dynamic random access memories (DRAM) chips to Micron Technology Inc. The agreement is seen as IBM's way of bolstering the US semiconductor industry and seeding a steady domestic supply. A US DRAM supply could reduce the need for US Memories Inc, a consortium of private companies, although IBM officials expect to license the technology to US Memories too. US Memories is is looking for $1 billion in financing and wants a relaxation in antitrust laws. Micron, which specializes in DRAM production, has lagged behind Japanese manufacturers, mastering one-megabit chip production at a time when the Japanese were already moving on to four-megabit devices.

International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Manufacturing, Licensing agreements, Micron Technology Inc., DRAM (Dynamic random access memory), DRAM, Licensing, Semiconductor Industry

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