JPRS Report. Science & Technology, Japan, Semiconductor Industry Aims for Giga Memories

This report contains the following sections concerning Japans semiconductor industry and its aims for Giga memories 1 Semiconductor industry is also shifting emphasis from quantity to quality, 2 The 1990s as viewed by top level semiconductor makers, 3 Memory capacity will continue to expand fourfold every 3 years, but the trends of prices and external specifications will change, 4 Only a limited number of professionals will benefit from silicon compilation for LSI design, 5 Microprocessors are aimed at 1,000 MIPS processing performance and integration of 100 million transistors, and 6 There are no limits to expanding the scale of integration, but micronization will become increasingly difficult.