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Week 1 News, on January 04, 2002

1.Micron to buy Korea Hynix unit for $4-5 bln-report
Micron Technology plans to swap a stake in Micron worth $4 billion to $5
billion
for the DRAM chip operations of South Korean rival Hynix Semiconductor, a
Korean
newspaper said on Friday......

<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8354258-0.html?tag=ats>

2.Intel finally takes wraps off DDR chipset
Next Monday is D-Day for Intel, or more specifically DDR-Day, as the firm
introduces
its long-awaited 845D double-data-rate chipset and the 0.13-micron design rule
Northwood Pentium 4 processor......
<http://www.ebns.com/story/OEG20020103S0058>

3.Price hikes may hasten chip recovery
A fresh rise in memory chip prices this week has persuaded some analysts the
industry
could return to profit in the first half of 2002, recovering from its worst
ever year
months faster than expected......
<http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-8342346-0.html>