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To: Duker who wrote (3544)	10/22/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 5867

Asian Semiconductor Expands Capacity, May Relocate Overseas October 22, 1999 (TAIPEI) -- Asian Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp., one of Taiwan's leading wafer foundries, is actively seeking to relocate production overseas. The destination will be decided either next year or in 2001. In addition, Asian Semiconductor is set to formally announce during in the week of Oct. 25 its receipt of orders for logic products and memory from Japan's Fujitsu Ltd. It is also negotiating terms of a purchase with another major Japanese buyer. Asian Semiconductor's shipment timetable was questioned after the power outage caused by last month's earthquake, as well as a fire that broke out at one of its plants. However, the company's road show in Silicon Valley on Oct. 26 can hopefully wipe out customers' worries. Asian Semiconductor's upgrade program is expected to enable its wafer plant one to turn out 25,000 units a month by the end of the year. Its wafer plant two is slated to ramp up manufacturing in the first quarter of next year. Asian Semiconductor expects plant one's monthly capacity to hit 32,000 units by the first quarter of 2001, and plant two's to hit 38,000, bringing its total eight-inch wafer capacity to 70,000 units by 2001. The company is also outlining an investment program for the construction of its third and fourth plants, which will very likely be located overseas. The losses generated by last week's blackout, as well as the imposition of anti-dumping taxes by the United States, are the two main reasons why it is seeking to relocate. (Commercial Times, Taiwan) nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com

To: Duker who wrote (3544)	10/25/1999 6:49:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5867

PC Retail Sales in Fourth Week of Sept. Rise Sharply October 25, 1999 (TOKY0) -- Japan's PC sales at about 2,000 home electronics outlets in the fourth week of September (Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 1999) rose sharply on a year-on-year basis. PC sales remained brisk, scoring an increase of 66.2 percent in units over the same period a year earlier (Sept. 28-Oct. 4, 1998). However, such sales decreased 16.6 percent in units and 15.6 percent in value as compared with the third week of September. These statistics were provided by GfK Japan Ltd., an information service company handling POS data of 55 mass merchandisers of consumer electric appliances. When compared with those of the fourth week of September 1998, PC sales increased 66.2 percent in units and 47.6 percent in value. The average sales price increased by 2,565 yen, from 198,595 yen to 201,160 yen. (106.16 yen = US$1) When compared with those of the third week of September, however, the sales decreased more than 15 percent both in units and value. This is because the existing models are being replaced by winter models and because a new iMac will be launched. PC sales will show no marked weekly fluctuations until late October. The average sales price decreased to the lowest level in the third week of September (since the survey started), but it returned to the 200,000 yen level the following week. This is because the sales amount of low-priced models from IBM Japan Ltd., which contributed to a decrease in the average sales price, were small this week and because Sony Corp. launched a high-end model with a Pentium III microprocessor. GfK Japan collects POS data from 55 IT-related retail sales companies centering on high-volume stores specializing in home electric appliances. It covers about 3,200 stores (as of April 1998) throughout Japan. In cooperation with GfK Japan, Nikkei Market Access provides weekly reports of PC sales in volume and value. The sales data has been based on the same 41 companies (with about 2,000 stores) since April 1996. The number of PCs sold at the 2,000 stores is estimated to comprise about 10 percent of gross domestic shipments, and when limiting the sales to retail sales channels, the share comes to about 25 percent of such shipments. nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com