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To: Dan Spillane who wrote (9916)	6/16/1999 7:43:00 PM
From: Ian@SI	Respond to of 13565

Dan, DIVX had only captured 10% of the market. Without it, some business may disappear (if the consumer already owns DVD), but more likely with a single standard in place, the resulting DVD market will expand much more rapidly. I've been paying very little interest to this area lately and don't know whether or not ATML also supplies chips to the DVD marketplace. My guess would be "probably". Ian.

To: Dan Spillane who wrote (9916)	6/17/1999 1:48:00 AM
From: G. H.	Respond to of 13565

Dan, I doubt that the divx fiasco had anything to do with Atmel's sell off today, not to knock Ian's post, but there are more IC firms out there with chips for the Divx system that did not crash today, and a time counter for a micro-controller core is not a big deal, if I understand it right. I can only hope that I am right in thinking that this was B.S. most likely created for shorting gains. I say we close above 24 tomorrow and in a few weeks this will be but a wrinkle in the sheets. Take care Henry