July 11, 2003 12:38 a.m. ET
TOKYO (AP) -- Electronics manufacturer Toshiba and chip maker Elpida Memory said Friday they will make memory chips that are about eight times quicker than today's fastest chips for gadgets in future network-linked homes.
The two Japanese companies will separately make the new chip, called XDR DRAM, using technology by Rambus Inc., based in Los Altos, Calif.
A sample of the chip will be produced next year and head into full-scale production in 2005, Toshiba spokesman Makoto Yasuda said Friday.
The new chip, running at 3.2 gigahertz, will be able to handle large amounts of video data and may be used in home network servers, mobile systems and next-generation video game machines, including the successor to Sony PlayStation2 .
"Keeping up with ever-increasing bandwidth requirements is a critical element of memory system design," said Hidemori Inakai, chief marketing officer for Elpida Memory, a joint venture between Japanese electronics giants Hitachi and NEC Corp.
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