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Silicon Valley- As the DRAM industry moves into a third year of depressed prices, Japan's Hitachi Ltd. is accelerating its transition to 64-Mbit DRAM in an effort to keep pace with demand for high-density memory.
After falling by 33% in the fourth quarter of 1997, the average selling price of a 16-Mbit DRAM has hovered in the $3 range, despite a brief uptick in the first few weeks of January. ASPs for 64-Mbit devices have also continued to track lower and...