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To: Jibacoa who wrote (7001)	2/28/2000 11:46:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 9582

UMC closed @ 112.5 UNC vol 35,249,546 +++++++++++++ feb 25 net purchase of 9,649M shares

To: Jibacoa who wrote (7001)	2/28/2000 11:55:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9582

ARM and UMC Announce Foundry Program for Advanced SoC Solutions CAMBRIDGE, England and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- ARM (London: ARM) (Nasdaq: ARMHY - news) and UMC today announced they have signed an agreement to enable UMC customers to utilize ARM© intellectual property (IP) for advanced system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. This new program will provide UMC's foundry customers who are pursuing emerging, high-growth markets, with easy access to ARM processor cores on a per-use basis. ``We're experiencing a strong demand for ARM solutions from foundry customers,' said Reynette Au, vice president of Worldwide Marketing, ARM. ``Many of these customers are aggressively pursuing advanced SoC designs in emerging market segments, and our partnership with an industry leading semiconductor foundry like UMC will enable these companies to get into production with ARM core-based designs as soon as possible.' ``ARM has been one of the most demanded cores amongst our customer base, and we are delighted to expand our long-standing relationship with ARM to enable more widespread use of ARM cores,' said Jim Kupec, president, UMC (USA) and head of Worldwide Marketing and Sales. ``This foundry program will allow us to provide our customers with access to ARM cores, enabling faster time-to-market for critical market segments. Time-to-market is the key requirement of UMC customers that motivated us to further expand our Gold IP(TM) portfolio with this innovative program with ARM. As the first foundry to offer ARM cores, UMC will now be able to offer its leading-edge processes to customers that require an ARM7TDMI core.' ``SSL is delighted to be partnering with ARM,' said Kevin Fielding, COO of SSL. ``Availability of the ARM license is key to SSL as it is the preferred choice of processor for Wireless Internet devices by our OEM customer base worldwide. A strong and lasting partnership with ARM allows our mutual customers the flexibility to deploy Wireless Internet Platform IP with the ARM processor core, and source from UMC.' ``We are excited to be one of the first UMC customers to utilize the ARM7TDMI core in this innovative model for our advanced ADSL products,' said Mike Gulett, president and chief operating officer, Virata. Obviously, ARM has been extremely successful at garnering design wins across multiple application segments, and it is clear from UMC's rapid growth that the foundry model is taking hold. Thus, we see this as a program that will benefit the industry and our customers.`` With this new foundry program, ARM and UMC will work together to reinforce the ARM architecture's acceptance as the industry's leading 16/32-bit RISC embedded processor core. ARM continues to meet the needs of its partners, and of the embedded processor industry, by offering complete SoC solutions including processor cores, peripheral IP, development tools, applications software, EDA tools and design services. The ARM architecture is well supported by semiconductor and system manufacturers, real-time operating system providers, third-party toolchain developers, application software providers and ARM design centers. The combination of UMC's world-class process technology and broad customer base, with ARM's industry-leading RISC processor technology, will allow the two companies to work together to enable their customers to produce leading-edge SoC devices, facilitating rapid growth in a wide range of emerging applications. biz.yahoo.com

To: Jibacoa who wrote (7001)	2/29/2000 7:34:00 PM
From: SBHX	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9582

Jibacoa, Thanks for your insight. I find that I am using many of your strategies. I nibble a bit, if it goes up, I accumulate. If it goes 10% below my entry, I always sell. How I took a position on ALSC On DD : The internet provides a wealth of resources, besides the obvious financial places (which may have wrong earnings on data), the company websites, there's always good old fashioned study of what the products look like, who their customers are, or what is interesting about this company. I traded siii as one of the stocks in my active-trading account, and 'discovered' that ALSC holds even more UMC, and BRCM and others, but did not have the burn rate that siii had. There's actually many stocks that I nibbled and then retreated from. This strategy seems to work, but some DD helps cut that down. I never buy a stock blind. When I do buy, I don't do too much TA, I basically nibbled and then bought over several days. I didn't really time it based on TA, since I rely more on dollar cost averaging. Once I reached my target amount (ALWAYS <25% of total portfolio), I usually will hold for a while. But I'd like to learn how to do a proper T.A. I have some math background, so if you have a good website that can teach me how TA works, I'll be happy to try it out. --- :-) Glad you caught onto my nom de plume. I figured there are two forces at work here. Fear=Scared, Greed=Hopeful. There's a reason why FEAR comes before GREED. Good, someone who understands.