-lrb- tokyo nih0n keizai shimbun 5 mar 94 p 1 -rrb- semiconductors/computers/electronics - feature : nec , samsung to cooperate in 256m dram research -- summary : nec , japan 's largest semiconductor company , and south korea 's samsung electronics co. have agreed to share the results of their research on next- generation 256 -megabit -lrb- m -rrb- dynamic random-access memory -lrb- dram -rrb- chips , according to press reports .