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A tiny prototype 64-bit memory chip balances on a Brobdingnagian finger. Japan's Hitachi Ltd. announced production of the prototype Thursday. The curcuits etched in the chip are 0.3 microns wide and can hold about 64 million binary units of information - enough to hold the equivalent of 512 newspaper pages in English, a Hitachi spokesman said.

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