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From: crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp)
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Subject: Re: Moore's Law
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Date: 8 Feb 90 19:52:07 GMT
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In article <3793@odin.SGI.COM> pkr@maddog.sgi.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
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>I though so at first, but then:
>
>I just read about ONE company with ONE fab line makeing ~800,000
>1MB DRAMs a month. That's 800 BILLION transistors per month.
>

Here's the numbers I saw recently:
Toshiba was producing 8 million 1meg DRAMS/month, Hitachi 3.5 million/month
etc.

	

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