Toshiba Corp has punished three executives involved in illegal exports of chips to the former East Germany between December 1986 and February 1987: two of the executives were forced to resign from Toshiba effective Friday, and one chose to quit after a warning; the Ministry of International Trade & Industry is banning Toshiba from exporting integrated circuits for one month starting on Christmas Eve to 27 former and current communist countries because of the sales – of masks and silicon wafers for 64K memory chips; the technology was transferred after East German officials implied that if Toshiba were to supply 64K and 256K technology, it would be awarded large power station contracts; Toshiba did not provide any 256K-bit technologies.
