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Business News Business Shrinking Memory Chips May Reach Dead End Reuters reported on Wednesday that there is rising concern among engineers developing smaller and smaller memory chips as they are beginning to worry that the laws of physics will not allow them to get any smaller. Mike Splinter, chief executive of Applied Materials Inc., the world's biggest supplier of tools for making microchips said that, "You get in to the 25-nanometer regime and there may need to be a new structure for nonvolatile memory." Currently, chip development is guided by “Moore’s Law” which says that the number of transistors that can be housed on a given area of silicon doubles every 18 months, but Splinter says this industry axiom may prove to be insufficient. Business Indian Developers Can’t Give Apartments Away Developers and city planners in Mumbai India are struggling to deal with an expansive shanty town that sits on prime real estate the city is desperate to develop. The city, which is projected to be the world’s second largest by 2012, is home to Asia’s largest slum, known as Dharavi, and is planning the largest slum-clearing ever undertaken, though Dharavi residence may keep that from happening. “We will fight it and fight it,” said Jockin Arputham, president of the National Slum Dwellers Federation (NSDF). In spite of requirements for developers to provide free housing for current Dharavi residents, Arputham stated, “Not a single slum dweller has given consent.” Business (Korea) Big Firms Heavily Invested in R&D In a Science & Technology Policy Institute (STEPI) report titled "Corporate R&D Investments & Achievements 2006" that was released on March 21 st, it is stated that the top 30 firms in the country are responsible for 90 percent of the research and development. Those funds, the report goes on to say, are tied up mostly in electronics. Samsung Electronics in particular invested hugely in R&D, making up 37.3 percent of R&D investments of the 750 firms analyzed. Of all R&D investment money, 60 percent was found to be invested in electronics and electronic firms. Business (Korea) Samsung Joins Restructuring Trend Samsung Electronics announced on Wednesday that it will undergo a new corporate restructuring plan, following in the footsteps of companies such as Hyundai Motor Group and LG Electronics. Workers at Samsung’s head office will be transferred to divisions that are struggling, in an effort to energize the company. Choi Do-seok, senior director of the firm's managing staff, was recently said that, "It is not that we are cutting down the members of the managing staff. We plan to assign a duty to revitalize the business sector, which is deemed to have lost its competitiveness, to selected staff members who are considered to be qualified for duty."