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Technology Stocks : C-Cube
CUBE 35.93-0.8%3:59 PM EST

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To: BillyG who wrote (24411)10/25/1997 6:03:00 PM
From: John Rieman  Read Replies (1) of 50808
 
I heard chip making equipment was/will be weak........................

Read the first two articles on NEC too..........................

satellite.nikkei.co.jp

Orders For Chip-Making Devices Surge 137.5% In Aug

TOKYO (Nikkei)-Japanese manufacturers of semiconductor production equipment received orders totaling 132.95 billion yen in August from domestic and overseas users, for a 137.5% jump and the seventh consecutive monthly rise year on year, the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan reported Thursday.

Orders for wafer processors rose 150%, for assembling machines 240%, and for testing devices 120%.

Sales of semiconductor production machines increased 4.9% to 105.42 billion yen, the first year-on-year rise in five months. Sales of wafer processors declined 7.3%, but those of assembling and testing machines surged more than 40% each.

Total orders in the Japanese market in August, which includes orders placed by domestic users with both Japanese and overseas manufacturers, increased 79.4% to 57.83 billion yen, while sales fell 16.7% to 57.89 billion yen.
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