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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (2174)	7/18/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (3) of 9818

'Will The Millennium Bug Halt Chip Lines? (07/17/98; 12:41 p.m. ET) By Staff, Electronic Buyers' News There could be a chip shortage -- maybe a big one -- starting Jan. 1, 2000. That's when semiconductor fab lines across the world could start doing funny things because of the millennium bug. As pointed out in an earlier column, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and chip makers face a potential year 2000 glitch in the embedded code of millions of microcontrollers. And at the Semicon West show last week, industry executives revealed another major concern: Y2K errors can cause equipment to shut down, run erratically, and otherwise foul up production lines. That could bring the chip industry's long-sought end to oversupply, but not the way they intended. If fabs are affected by the Y2K gremlins, it could shake up the chip market, literally overnight -- at the stroke of 12 a.m. ... techweb.com

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