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To: H James Morris who wrote (108018)	9/6/2000 8:24:10 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

James, Sarmad. Think of the price of oil as equal to another half a dozen interest rate hikes and you have a picture of the impact. The price of oil is the banana peel for this economy. Sell your stock now. We are going to see a sell-off -- this is just the beginning. Good luck.

To: H James Morris who wrote (108018)	9/7/2000 9:38:05 AM
From: mike machi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Amtech Systems, Inc. Wins New Order From Third Optical Component Manufacturer TEMPE, Ariz., Sep 7, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amtech Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASYS) announced that it has secured its first system order from a third optical component manufacturer. The order is for a diffusion furnace with multiple reactor chambers. These systems are also known in the industry as horizontal thermal reactors. This order contemplates delivery in the first quarter of the Company's fiscal 2001. With this new customer, the Company has reached another milestone in its plan to rapidly expand its customer base within the optical component telecomm market, which is a relatively new market for the Company's production equipment. On August 16, 2000, the Company announced that it had entered into the optical component telecomm market, a market that also uses certain semiconductor manufacturing processes. In that announcement, Amtech marked its entry into this market with a $6.4 million order for eleven (11) diffusion furnace systems to be delivered over the next twelve months. The optical telecomm market uses the Company's products in the production of optical integrated circuit devices that are critical components in high-speed switches for broadband communications over fiber optic lines. Also mentioned in that announcement was a system order from a second optical component manufacturer, who now has delivered a request for quotation on two additional systems. J.S. Whang, the Company's President and CEO, stated "I am thrilled to announce that we have secured our third optical component manufacturer as a customer for our diffusion furnace systems. I thank our sales and operation personnel for achieving this milestone in less than a month from the time we announced entering this exciting new market, which uses our systems in the production of these technologically leading-edge optical components used in high-speed telecommunications. According to the recent forecast of RHK, the worldwide optical component telecommunications market is projected to increase from $6.6 billion in 1999 to $23 billion in 2003. We plan to participate in that growth and hope to be able to announce additional new customers in this market relatively shortly, as we are negotiating terms with a fourth company and have been invited to make a presentation to a fifth company in this exciting high tech market. As always, we will provide the best possible customer service, with the expectation that this will lead to repeat orders, in what is now clearly a very important market for us. We believe that sales into the optical component telecomm which will facilitate meeting our aggressive growth goals." Amtech Systems, Inc. manufactures capital equipment, including silicon wafer handling automation, semiconductor processing equipment and related consumables used in fabricating semiconductor devices. Semiconductors, or semiconductor chips, are fabricated on silicon wafer substrates, sliced from ingots, and are part of the circuitry, or electronic components, of many products, including computers, telecommunications devices, automotive products, consumer goods and industrial automation and control systems. The Company's semiconductor handling and processing products currently address the polishing of newly sliced silicon wafers and reclaimed test wafers and the oxidation and deposition steps used in the fabrication of semiconductors. The Company has recently found application for its products in the optical component market