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To: DiViT who wrote (44091)	8/23/1999 4:42:00 PM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

...not quite the $150 board I was looking for. Nice to see GIC and SFA kicking ass today... <in a matter of fact & assholian voice> ..that spinoff DIVI.com would have done well today as well. btw...almost a sell signal on ZRAN, but not yet.

To: DiViT who wrote (44091)	8/23/1999 5:24:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Konka/C-Cube DVD player priced at $199................... beta.cdad.com Konka, Funai/Mitsubishi Venture To Bow DVD Players by Bob Gerson 23-Aug-1999 Starting prices on DVD players will be heading down starting this fall with the introduction of the first model from Konka, the China-based video hardware giant, and the expected shipment starting late this year, or early next, of models produced by a just-formed joint venture of Funai and Mitsubishi. Konka said its initial DVD player, to be shipped to dealers in late October, will be its $199-suggested-retail KD1800U, a full-featured remote model with a silver finish. Konka said its player supports up to eight different language sound tracks with onscreen display and comes with A/V, S-Video and composite video outputs. Separately, in Japan, Funai and Mitsubishi have announced the formation of Digitec Industrial, a joint venture for the production of DVD players for export to the U.S. Mitsubishi is 51% owner of the venture, which has been capitalized at $175,000. The venture is intended to combine Funai's low-cost production capability with Mitsubishi's digital video know-how. DVD player production is scheduled to start at a 30,000 monthly rate at a Funai plant in China, just north of the Hong Kong border. The players will be sold under both the Funai and Mitsubishi brands, and all are initially targeted for the U.S. market. Exports to other markets will be made later. The venture will get tech support from an R&D center set up in a Kyoto plant of Mitsubishi's A/V Equipment Division. Mitsubishi said that for the time being, it will continue buying players from Toshiba, currently its only supply source. The venture is expected to have $26 million in factory sales in its first year of operation and $87 million in its second. Funai, which markets here under the Funai, Symphonic and Sylvania brands, said it views DVD players as the natural replacement for what it expects will be a declining market for VCRs. For Mitsubishi, the availability of popularly priced DVD players is seen helping it achieve a 20% jump to $3.1 billion in its consolidated A/V sales in fiscal 2001 and restore profitability at its consumer electronics operation.

To: DiViT who wrote (44091)	8/23/1999 5:32:00 PM
From: Peter V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

That's quite the little toy from Dell. Add your 2 GB of RAM and the price doubles! But considering how much that machine would have cost 5 years ago (even 2 years ago!), it's an incredible amount of power for the price. I'm assuming it's for animation and the like, or very serious CAD/CAM work. (but it would make a nifty word processor too . . . )

To: DiViT who wrote (44091)	8/27/1999 10:33:00 AM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

August 25, 11:00 pm ET - Taiwan Semicon Hiking Foundry Prices (Reuters) - Microchip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co on Thursday said it was hiking some of its foundry prices to cope with rising demand. They are only raising foundry prices on certain products, according to Taiwan Semicon's public relations manager. Taipei's Economic Daily News on Thursday said Taiwan Semicon was hiking its foundry prices by 15 to 25 percent for all its clients. Taiwan Semicon, a global leader in made-to-order "foundry' chipmaking, had said that its cumulative January-July sales were up 19.6 percent from the same 1998 period. The firm's capacity was again fully utilized in July as a result of continued growth in the semiconductor industry, officials said. To obtain new capacity to cope with rising demand, Taiwan Semiconductor in June bought a 30 percent stake in Acer Inc's loss-making memory-chip unit, Acer Semiconductor Manufacturing, securing management rights in the process.

To: DiViT who wrote (44091)	10/5/1999 5:31:00 PM
From: Peter V	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

OT - Dell is offering boxes with RDAM technology. Does anyone have an opinion as to whether this is worth the extra money? Billy, you seemed to have a handle on this RMBS technology, what do you think? If I just put off the purchase for a little while longer, the next best thing will be offered . . . . I could do this until I die, of course. The boxes I was looking at a couple months ago (#reply-10745525) are about $1800, down from $2200, but the groovy new RDAM box is about $3000. FWIW, I can't find this RDAM stuff on the Dell website, I got a catalog at home. And one more thing. When I look at the Dell XPS T specs, dell.com it does not show an EE 1394 I/O device. Is it possible that it does not have one in late 1999? Or am I just clueless and it's called something else? and one more dumbass question: what is G.Lite, and is it going to replace DSL?