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To: Paul Engel who wrote (89113)	9/29/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 186894

Therefore, Taiwan is a critical element in world technology - just as SIlicon Valley is - which also happens to sit on top of many massive earthquake faults. On a related note: biz.yahoo.com Wednesday September 29, 5:23 pm Eastern Time Quake Disrupts Semiconductor Supply ... A plant that manufactures chips used in Hasbro's (NYSE:HAS - news) popular Furby dolls was knocked out of commission. So were factories that manufacture technology to work with Advanced Micro Devices chips -- a leading low-cost alternative to Intel Corp. (NasdaqNM:INTC - news) semiconductors. AMD executives were still unsure when the plants might be back in production. ''We're gathering information. It's still an incomplete picture,'' said spokesman Scott Allen. ''We're potentially looking at an interruption in supply. Past that I don't think I can supply further detail.'' Allen declined to comment on how the disruption might affect revenues, saying federal securities regulations prohibited the company from discussing its financial performance immediately before the scheduled release of third-quarter results next Wednesday. ...