Mike, Lam Research is expecting next Qtr revenue to be close to 75% down from 1996 peak. The semi equipment total revenue is 33% of what it used to be.
Now, AMAT is the average, for better or worse. Why is it trading at peak 1995 levels??? Actually, on price alone it's even much worse than NVLS.
On a different note. My 40 something former American co-worker is still unemployed. He is already closing on 4th months. So are tens of thousands other engineers from LRCX, AMAT, CRUS, LSI, ADPT, INTEL, Syquest, IOM, PAC-BELL and more. Actually, my daily commute from Fremont to Santa Clara got somewhat better. -g- We know that it's going to get much worse.
Now, do we really need more foreign engineers considering this???
Amir
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