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To: Binx Bolling who wrote (8797)	1/25/2000 12:29:00 AM
From: Binx Bolling	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

As the shortage rages, however, some RF-chip makers blame their inability to meet demand on a shortfall of other wireless-handset components. A lack of related parts, ranging from flash memory to surface-acoustic-wave (SAW) filters to tantalum capacitors-is crimping the supply picture for handset vendors and triggering a fallout that's affecting other component sectors. Whatever effect such corollary factors are having, analysts indicate that demand for cell phones and other wireless-communications devices is creating an environment of allocation. ?Everybody in wireless is going to be on allocation by midyear,? said Will Strauss, an analyst at Forward Concepts Co., Tempe, Ariz. ?On the chip side, [the lack of] RF chips and flash memories is becoming a problem.? ebnews.com (my apologies if this is a repeat post)