Sahara,
First, let me apologize for my delay in answering your question. Second, if anyone hasn't done so already, welcome to Silicon Investor.
I'm not sure how you picked me for the honor of answering your question, so maybe you could satisfy my curiousity on this issue?
Now, I'm no expert on this area, so what I'm going to give you is my opinion - okay? If anyone else on this thread wants to help out with your question please feel free as well.
If you are truly new to posting/contributing to these threads, I would first off err on the side of caution. It's a lot easier to expand/explain further a previous post than to withdraw one once it's out there for the whole world to see. Just some common sense there.
Also take with a large grain of salt anything you read here, and that will be true of how people will view any of your posts as well. A lot of unwarranted bullishness (or pessimism) gets expressed on these threads, and selective "facts" can often be used to support either position.
Now, to finally answer your question, it is my opinion that for you to comment or make general observations on increased or diminished wafer flow processing at your company would not constitute any SEC kind of violation. As a back-end vendor, my understanding is you are talking about stuff like probe and test, wire lead bonding type stuff, like a teradyne, electroglas, or a kulicke and soffa would be doing (or supplying equipment for). You can see scattered posts containing the same type stuff throughout the various threads on SI.
Now what you might really want to check out would be your company's conflict of interest corporate policy statements. Even though info you post probably would not violate any securities law, your company might feel that on the matter of customer trust, there might be a problem there.
If you want to pursue your question further, you can pose your question to Jill, the webmistress of this site, or Jeff and Brad. Hope this helps. Good luck on all your investments. Peter.
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