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To: Pawhuska49 who wrote (3552)	8/15/2000 9:47:10 AM
From: sam	Respond to of 10714

What may have been a decent call last week IMHO is already outdated. VERY outdated. Personally, I wouldn't be short CREE right now. FWIW, seems to have double -- or even triple -- bottomed on the drop to 92. bwdik

To: Pawhuska49 who wrote (3552)	8/15/2000 10:01:41 AM
From: mtnlady	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10714

Great reply Mike. My cat's been doing the same thing as well. Only exception is that she attacks my legs when I walk by. I think there are some pent up hostility issues she may be trying to work through. If my ankles survive we both should be fine. Oh yes... CREE... my money (literally) is on them to 'survive' this as well. Nice article this morning.. Sorry I can't provide the link. 40 Watt Hybrid Amplifier and First Reported GaN MMIC Exceed Highest Available Power from GaAs DURHAM, N.C., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Biennial IEEE Cornell University Conference on Advanced Concepts in High Performance Devices held in Ithaca, New York last week, Cree, Inc., (Nasdaq: CREE) announced that it has demonstrated a record setting 10 GHz radio frequency (RF) power performance from a gallium nitride (GaN) High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT). The GaN HEMT transistor was incorporated into a hybrid amplifier that achieved 40 Watts of pulsed RF output power at 10 GHz. This is greater than 2.5 times higher than has been publicly reported for a single semiconductor device at this frequency. In other development news, Cree reported it has demonstrated the first Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) in GaN, grown on a semi- insulating SiC substrate. A MMIC places the RF matching circuitry of the amplifier directly on the chip, allowing for more efficient, broader band, performance than for the hybrid amplifiers discussed above. In the first iteration, the GaN MMIC achieved 20 Watts of pulsed RF output power at 9 GHz, well exceeding the highest RF output power gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMICs available for this frequency range. John Palmour, Cree's Director of Advanced Devices commented, "We are extremely pleased with the pace of development in GaN microwave technology. The 40 Watt hybrid amplifier demonstrates the vast improvement in power performance over GaAs, yielded by placing the GaN device on our high thermal conductivity semi-insulating SiC substrates. We believe the first demonstration of a GaN MMIC heralds a new era of high performance wide bandgap MMIC-based amplifiers that are expected to outperform other semiconductor technologies for power and bandwidth." The work on GaN hybrid and MMIC amplifiers was funded at Cree, in part, by the Air Force Research Laboratories and the Office of Naval Research, respectively. GaN discrete devices and MMICs which are under development are being targeted at Cree for high frequency (5-35 GHz) commercial broadband communications, as well as military radar and communications applications. North Carolina-based Cree, Inc. is the world leader in developing and manufacturing semiconductor materials and electronic devices made from silicon carbide. The company uses proprietary technology to make enabling compound semiconductors such as blue and green LEDs, microwave transistors for use in wireless base stations and radar, SiC crystals used in the production of unique gemstones and SiC wafers that are sold for research. Cree has new product initiatives based on its experience in SiC, including blue laser diodes for optical storage applications and high power devices for power conditioning and switching. For more information on Cree, visit cree.com.

To: Pawhuska49 who wrote (3552)	8/15/2000 1:52:06 PM
From: Tom Pulley	Respond to of 10714

Mike, off topic.............. but here's a suggestion to see if your cat is OK. Assuming you have a fenced backyard, put her in the backyard with a dog. She will likely sit on the fence as close as she can to the dog in order to tease the dog. The dog will get very aggravated, growl and bark, but in the end the dog can't do squat except sit, watch and wait. Now, get a pellet gun. Shoot the cat in the butt with the pellet gun and see what happens. If the cat falls off the fence, screetches with high volume, and jumps back up on the fence, then the cat is OK. If the cat falls off the fence with little sound and climbs back up on the fence; the cat is sick but will eventually recover. If the cat falls off the fence and lands with a small bounce, this is called a "dead cat bounce". It means your cat was about to die or you hit it in the head instead of the butt with the pellet gun. Hope that helps. To all cat lovers, I'm just kidding and don't advocate shooting cats with pellet guns under most circumstances. Tom