Dongbu Group

11/01/1997

South Korean conglomerate Dongbu Group plans to enter the DRAM market by manufacturing 64- and 256-Mbit devices beginning in 1999 and is putting together a management team, say sources in Seoul. As it plans to diversify, Dongbu has already begun producing fax/modem chips. Joo-Hoon Lee, director of the Seoul office of SEMI, said that Dongbu is negotiating to acquire DRAM technology from a foreign chipmaker.