BRIEFING - ASIA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - MARCH 3, 2004.

(From Asia Pulse)

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An executive briefing on information technology for March 3, 2004, prepared by Asia Pulse (http://www.asiapulse.com), the real-time, Asia-based wire with exclusive news, commercial intelligence and business opportunities.

INDIA'S HCL INFOSYSTEMS TIES UP WITH PORTWISE

NEW DELHI - HCL Infosystems (BSE:HCLI) has entered into a strategic OEM alliance with European major PortWise under which the former will incorporate PortWise's software suite.

"HCL Infosystems has partnered with PortWise to launch HCL SecuAccess to provide secure remote access to partners, employees and suppliers over the network," a HCL statement said.

SAMSUNG DEVELOPS WORLD'S FIRST 70 NM TECH FOR MAKING DRAM CHIPS

SEOUL - Samsung Electronics Co. (KSE:005930) announced Wednesday it has developed the world's first 70 nanometer (nm) technology for producing dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips.

The world's largest memory chipmaker said it utilized metal electrodes as condensers instead of silicon condensers in developing the 70 nm process, which can produce 30 per cent more than 80 nm process, the industry standard.

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