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To: Paul Engel who wrote (87734)	9/4/1999 4:08:00 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Charles Chu - Where are you? Need to contact Charles Chu, Intel employee in Oregon, I believe. E-mail address appreciated. THE WATSONYOUTH

To: Paul Engel who wrote (87734)	9/4/1999 11:51:00 AM
From: Felix Appolonia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, looks like we are headed to 100 next week. This is from after hours on Island ECN Felix 10 most active stocks on Island ECN (5:15 p.m. EDT) Name Price Change Session Volume Play By Play (PBYP:Nasdaq) 6 1/4 +1/32 47,748 Hemagen Diagnostics (HMGN:Nasdaq) 2 2/32 +1/16 34,070 Yahoo! (YHOO:Nasdaq) 155 +1/16 31,054 Amazon.com (AMZN:Nasdaq) 62 1/2 +1/32 30,844 eBay (EBAY:Nasdaq) 133 1/4 -- 26,826 Microsoft (MSFT:Nasdaq) 96 +3/16 20,810 Excite@Home (ATHM:Nasdaq) 40 7/8 -3/64 15,890 Intel (INTC:Nasdaq) 90 +11/16 12,846 Dell (DELL:Nasdaq) 49 1/4 -3/16 11,218 Parametric Technology (PMTC:Nasdaq) 14 7/16 -- 10,400

To: Paul Engel who wrote (87734)	9/4/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Samsung Sees Big Profit Increase (09/03/99, 7:29 a.m. ET) By Reuters The world's top memory chip maker Samsung Electronics Co said on Friday strong chip prices will give a big boost to profits, which analysts said could reach nearly $2.5 billion in 1999. ''The 64-megabit DRAM price rose across $10 yesterday on the spot market and (the strong price) would give a considerable boost to our profit for the coming period,'' Samsung spokesman James Chung told Reuters. The 64-megabit dynamic random access memory chips are the current mainstay in the world market and the biggest contributor to the South Korean company's business. Analysts said the current price, compared with around $8 early this year and a low of $5.6 for the year, was attributable to a blackout in Taiwan and a ''free PC'' boom in the personal computer industry. ''The Taiwan blackout has reduced the world DRAM supply by some two percent, which was an important factor in the DRAM industry which is sensitive to supply and demand situation,'' said Shim Yong-jae, an analyst at SG Securities. Taiwan's key industries were temporarily paralysed in late July by a power blackout and damage inflicted on semiconductor and other electronics makers has been estimated at more than $62 million. Analysts said the chip price strength could also be attributable to increasing demand for personal computers under the spreading ''free PC'' marketing strategy of providing free PCs to people who sign up for Internet access. ''At first we thought the price rise was due to a temporary shortage in supply resulting from a blackout in Taiwan and from a temporary fall in yield due to attempts by makers to introduce new shrinkage technology,'' Samsung's Chung said. But the price strength proved to be more cyclical and the upbeat trend is now expected to hold on for the time being, he said. ''In terms of annual profit, a $1 rise in the price usually raises our profit by about $300 million,'' he said. But he declined to give a forecast for the company's profit. He had earlier said the company's after-tax profit for calendar 1999 was expected to top 2.7 trillion won ($2.3 billion), compared with 313.2 billion won in profit for 1998. Analysts said they were upgrading their earnings forecasts for Samsung Electronics to somewhere near three trillion won. News of the strong upturn in chip prices cheered investors on the Korea Stock Exchange, lifting share prices of all the three South Korean memory chip makers. The three makers took a combined share of 37.9 percent on the world DRAM market in 1998 sales, with Samsung alone accounting for an 18.6 percent share.