Foreign chips flooding the U.S. market provided gobs of cheap memory for PC graphics boards and laser printers--and, boy, did those two technologies ever chew up the memory!

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You'll need at least a 500-MHz Pentium III system and one of the more powerful graphics accelerator boards to run these, however.

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The company predicts PC vendors will configure entire systems with the necessary boards, monitors, and Windows software, and individually sold graphics cards will come bundled with the software.

CNN: Coming Attraction: HDTV on your PC

Singapore makes lots of other electronics devices: printers, CD-ROM drives, DVD drives and printed circuit boards -- not to mention DRAMs (memory chips) and the sound cards and graphics cards found in PCs.

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