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Previews the 1996 IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) to be held in San Francisco, California from February 8 through the 10th. Companies and their planned introductions including Hewlett-Packard, Digital and Cyrix; Dynamic random access memories (DRAM) to be released by Samsung and Mitsubishi; Informational sessions on memory to be held; Other details.

Reports that organizers of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference are trying to understand why papers from universities and companies in Taiwan were eliminated from the conference for a fifth straight year. Total number of papers Taiwan submitted in 2001; How Nicky Lu of Etron Technologies hopes to remedy the problem; Symposium that has seen similar problems with Taiwanese submissions.