Two of Japan’s major chip makers, Toshiba Corp and Fujitsu Ltd will collaborate on developing 1Gb dynamic random access memory. The deal will see a team of 100 researchers being assembled at Toshiba’s development center to focus on all aspects of developments of the 1Gb DRAM, especially use of 0.13 micron process. Current DRAM chips are typically built using a 0.23 micron process. Fujitsu and Toshiba hope that teaming up on development will cut costs and speed up to time to market, Reuters reports that the companies expect to launch the next generation DRAMs in March 2002. Toshiba has said that the new tie-up with Fujitsu will not affect its current cooperation with IBM Corp and Siemens AG.
