Initially, this was no more sophisticated than the South Korean memory operations.
Take another South Korean memory chip maker, Hyundai Electronics (No. 260).
South Korean memory-chip makers have been hit with heavy duties.
Such success prompted the company, now the third-largest memory chip maker in South Korea and among the world's top 10, to plan its IPO in hopes of becoming a stock market darling too.
It is the only North America-based major memory manufacturer that competes against South Korean bigwigs like Samsung and Hynix.
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"The 2012 Paralympics will live long in the memory as the Games where South Africa and the world learnt that these Games were not the fun games nor the 'shame' games, " wrote The Star.
Micron Technology (nyse: MU - news - people ), it seemed all but certain, would close its deal to acquire the memory chip business of beleaguered South Korean chipmaker Hynix Semiconductor .
Others think he will probably stumble on, having weathered past crises, including backlash from Sept. 11, several assassination attempts, and South Asia's worst earthquake in living memory.
Whatever the eventual outcome, it would be tragic if Mr. Kesri's power play were to torpedo one of South Asia's most promising peace initiatives in recent memory.
When memory chip maker LG Semi-con of South Korea decided to go public this year, it could not have foreseen that the bottom would drop out of the market for its primary product.
Macroeconomic policy in South Africa is better now than it has been in living memory.
Amazingly, as South Korea was grappling with its most serious economic crisis in memory, the men who aspire to lead the nation have almost studiously avoided discussing the subject.
"England and South Africa play for the Basil D'Oliveira trophy in his memory, which is wonderful, " he said.
Memory chips still account for more than 80% of South Korea's semiconductor production, compared with less than half of Japan's.
The South Korean electronics conglomerate is the world's largest producer of NAND memory.
And many will, surely, agree that the best way to honour the memory of those 13 dead soldiers is to make absolutely sure that South Africa finds out the truth about the military deployment in CAR.
Coming late to memory-chip fabrication, they had more recent technology than Japan and South Korea.
Clear gainers include Intel, which produces 85% of all microprocessors, and the makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips such as Japan's NEC and Toshiba and South Korea's Samsung Electronics, LG Semicon and Hyundai Electronics.
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