The company is speeding up production of 64-megabit DRAMs, which are in great demand for computers hungry for memory to run graphics-intensive software.
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.
Even though these graphics chips whip up close to 1 million polygons a second, they bog down in the data, which can travel only so fast between the graphics accelerator and the memory chips nearby.