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To: Tom Shutters who wrote (3831)	9/24/1999 10:08:00 PM
From: Tom Shutters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4005

"Analysis: Quake forces reexamination of sourcing strategies" ..."The earthquake this week in Taiwan might seem an extreme example of risk in the supply chain. But not to industry veteran John East, president of Actel Corp. and alumnus of Advanced Micro Devices Inc., among other suppliers." "I've gone through power failures, politics, exchange rate fluctuations, typhoons, export regulations, yield crashes, and a volcano," East said, rattling off some of the plagues that have hit his supply lines through the years. Those experiences taught him a lesson that paid off for him this past week: spread your risk and suppliers around — a lot"... eet.com:80/story/OEG19990924S0011