The company also has plants under construction in Italy to produce dynamic random access memory chips with four million and 16 million characters of information.

A 128-megabit dynamic random access memory chip now costs more to make than the typical $2 it fetches on world markets.

Prices for dynamic random access memory chips that store a million characters of memory fell from more than $6 to below $5 in the quarter.

Thus, like most other American semiconductor companies, National was forced, after huge losses, to drop out of the market for dynamic random access memory chips.

The semiconductor industry has taken further steps to re-enter the market for dynamic random access memory chips.

Similar complaints against three other foreign companies, regarding the production and sale of dynamic random access memory semiconductor chips, have not yet been decided.

The plant will produce 16-bit microcontrollers and 4- and 16-megabit dynamic random access memory chips, beginning in the fall of 1997.

Prices for dynamic random access memory chips fell 60 percent compared with a year ago, the company said.

The brokers handle everything from computers to laser printers to large lots of 256K dynamic random access memory chips.

The processor then stores the message on a dynamic random access memory chip.