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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 1st 64 Megabit DRAM (Submitted Without Comment)
Keywords: 64Mbit, DRAM
Message-ID: <12699@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 14 Jun 90 09:16:59 GMT
References: <16348@smunews.UUCP> <1990Jun11.032747.15462@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Jun11.032747.15462@agate.berkeley.edu> dankg@typhoon.Berkeley.EDU (Dan KoGai) writes:
>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.  

	Note: according the EETimes, it is NOT a working prototype.  It is 18
months or 2 years from being a working prototype according to Hitachi.

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