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To: Binx Bolling who wrote (9855)	3/27/2000 5:21:00 PM
From: Binx Bolling	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 60323

"Factors That May Affect Future Results Our operating results may fluctuate significantly which may adversely affect our stock price. Our quarterly and annual operating results have fluctuated significantly in the past and we expect that they will continue to fluctuate in the future. This fluctuation is a result of a variety of factors, including the following: o unpredictable demand for our products; o decline in the average selling prices of our products due to competitive pricing pressures; o seasonality in sales of our products; o adverse changes in product and customer mix; o slower than anticipated market acceptance of new or enhanced versions of our products; o competing flash memory card standards which displace the standards used in our products; o changes in our distribution channels; o timing of license and royalty revenue; o fluctuations in product costs, particularly due to fluctuations in manufacturing yields and utilization; o availability of sufficient silicon wafer foundry capacity to meet customer demand; o excess capacity of flash memory from our competitors and our own new flash wafer capacity; o significant yield losses which could affect our ability to fulfill customer orders and could increase our costs; o lengthening in manufacturing cycle times due to our suppliers operating at peak capacity; o increased research and development expenses; o exchange rate fluctuations, particularly the U.S. dollar to Japanese yen exchange rate; o changes in general economic conditions, in particular the economic recession in Japan; o natural disasters affecting the countries in which we conduct our business, particularly Taiwan, Japan and the United States; o difficulty of forecasting and management of inventory levels; and o expenses related to obsolescence of unsold inventory. Difficulty of estimating silicon wafer needs "