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To: orkrious who wrote (32545)	9/21/1999 9:58:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Jay, the Taiwan earthquake was a big one, reminiscent of a couple in my days in California. Major major trajedy. One of the items in the article... Around 70% of "fabless" semiconductor companies (those that don't have their own factories) -- including such cutting-edge chip makers as Broadcom, Galileo Technology, MMC Networks, PMC-Sierra, S3, 3DFX Interactive, Altera, Lattice Semiconductor and Xilinx -- outsource their chip production to Taiwanese facilities ...made me recall a line of LSI's Wilf Corrigan at their stockholders meeting this year: "In certain situations where there is not enough capacity, or something else happens, fabless can become chipless." Guess it might possibly come to play for some of those companies. Life is tough. Tony