A European group developed a new computer chip
A prototype of the new high-capacity chip that may help the Europeans catch up with Japanese and U.S. competitors was presented to West Germany’s Research Minister Heinz Riesenhuber. The chip, which is expected to be ready for production in the autumn of 1988, has a 4-million-bit capacity. It was developed jointly by West Germany’s Siemens AG and the Netherlands’ NV Philips, with subsidies from the West German and Dutch governments.
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