The company also has plants under construction in Italy to produce dynamic random access memory chips with four million and 16 million characters of information.

Sematech, the semiconductor industry's new research consortium, will begin making a 4-megabit random access memory chip in 1989.

A 128-megabit dynamic random access memory chip now costs more to make than the typical $2 it fetches on world markets.

A random access memory chip is arranged as a rectangular array of bins.

The semiconductor industry has taken further steps to re-enter the market for dynamic random access memory chips.

Similar complaints against three other foreign companies, regarding the production and sale of dynamic random access memory semiconductor chips, have not yet been decided.

The plant will produce 16-bit microcontrollers and 4- and 16-megabit dynamic random access memory chips, beginning in the fall of 1997.

Prices for dynamic random access memory chips fell 60 percent compared with a year ago, the company said.

A maximum of 32 pictures can be stored in the camera's random access memory chips for about 24 hours.

The processor then stores the message on a dynamic random access memory chip.