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To: Thomas G. Busillo who wrote (46121)	6/4/1999 1:10:00 PM
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Third, I do not believe that it is in NEC's best interests to start a price war. But it's in MU's best interests? Why would MU be the only major DRAM player capable of attempting to put the squeeze on marginal players? If NEC believes its the or one of the low-cost producers, why would NEC reach a conclusion that is different from MU? Or Samsung for that matter? Isn't part of the danger that you have some major players smelling blood and all going for the kill at the same time? Isn't it also possible that the net effect of going for the kill will be to produce an even worse short-term situation than if the marginal players just were ground down by their own inefficencies? If supply/demand parity were expected to come at point X (caused by industrywide reduction in CAPX + fairly normal demand trends), and the top players as a group over-compensated for the effect of marginal suppliers, aren't what they really doing is pushing the supply/demand partity point further out into the future? Isn't this in some sense a variation on the "we have to burn down the village to save it" strategy? Tom

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