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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Moderated Thread - please read rules before posting
QCOM 136.48-8.3%2:50 PM EST

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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (331)7/6/2000 10:00:31 PM
From: Dennis Roth   of 197603
 
Open letter
This started ad a response to a PM but mysteriously I am now no longer authorized to send PM's so I'll just post my answer here while I'm still permitted to post.

>> Do you know if this article about Korea producing components internally, came out before the market closed, or not? <<

I don't know and I don't care.

>> I didn't want to bring this up publicly, but do you think this will tank the stock tomorrow? <<

It could, I've been in since 1996. I could use a buying opportunity to pick up some more. I've greatly reduced the amount of margin I'm using this year and I'm relatively
bullet proof to short term gyrations and panics.

>> I didn't realize that Samsung was licensed or capable of making their own CDMA chipsets. <<

They, LGIC and some others. They don't use their own chipsets because it cheaper and quicker to market to use Qualcomm's

>>If this really happens next June, that could be the end of all QCOM chipsets to Korea. <<

It would also be the end of Korean CDMA handset exports. Trying to develop your own chipsets is the Nokia CDMA path and it means you're always a generation behind
Qualcomm and the handset makers who have no quams about using Qualcomm chips will always beat you to market.
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