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Article: IBM CHIP INAUGURATES THE ERA OF COMPUTER MEGABITS
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- April 22, 1986
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NEW YORK - After years of development battles,
reams of scientific papers and another round of Japanese-American
competition in electronics, the era of the megabit chip - a computer
memory chip capable of storing one million bits of information - has
begun.
Last week, the International Business Machines Corp. became the
world's first computer manufacturer to announce that it was making
use of a megabit chip, the next generation for the semiconductor
industry, in a commercial product.
In relying on the megabit chip in its Model 3090 mainframe
computers, also known as the Sierra series, IBM is packing more and
more data in less and less space - thus hoping to trim further the
cost of its ...