The New York Times went overboard last week on the reiteration by IBM president Jack Kuehler that IBM is in volume production of 4M-bit memory chips, highlighting the fact that that it means that IBM is a month or three ahead of the main Japanese manufacturers: it was in fact already widely known that IBM would be introducing the new generation parts into products before the end of the year, and the expectation is that memory-hungry AS/400 users are right at the front of the queue, although next year the new parts should also be infiltrating main memory and disk controllers on the 3090s and getting into 80486-based – and perhaps some 80386 – models of the Personal System/2.
