
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, July 5, 1994                   TAG: 9407050036
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: TOKYO                                LENGTH: Short

NEC, SUNDISK JOINING TO DEVELOP `FLASH' CHIP

NEC Corp., Japan's largest maker of semiconductors, and SunDisk Corp. of the United States have agreed to jointly develop a new generation of "flash" computer memory chips, the companies announced Monday.

The companies said they plan to begin marketing 256-megabit flash memories in 1997. The largest flash memory chips currently available hold 16 megabits, or about 16 million units of binary information.

- Associated Press

by CNB