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Technology Stocks : ADI: The SHARCs are circling! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scrapps who wrote (2309)	10/16/2000 4:10:59 PM
From: Jim Oravetz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2882

FWIW, here is my target for an ADI acquisition:Agilent semi Agilent aims for higher semiconductor profile By Mark LaPedus, Semiconductor Business News Oct 13, 2000 (3:01 PM) URL: semibiznews.com SAN JOSE -- Hoping to raise its profile in the chip business, the Semiconductor Products Group of Agilent Technologies Inc. here in briefings with the press and analysts outlined the company's strategy to expand its already large presence in the communications IC market. At its first ever Semiconductor Products Summit here on Thursday, Agilent's chip group announced a reorganization, a new line of products and technologies, and a bold fab-capacity expansion program, reportedly including a plan to build a new 6-inch wafer plant for gallium-arsenide (GaAs) devices. The announcements are aimed to propel Agilent's semiconductor operation into the limelight. Agilent's roots in semiconductors can be traced to back the 1960s or even earlier, when it was buried inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s test and measurement operations. But Agilent's IC efforts, along with its test and measurement business, were recently overshadowed by HP's vast portfolio of consumer-oriented products, like PCs, printers, midrange computers, and workstations. However, in a corporatewide shakeup last year, HP decided to spin off its test and measurement and communications component operations into an independent company, called Agilent. It's a little-known fact, but Agilent's total IC sales were $1.72 billion in 1999, up from $1.57 billion in 1998. Analysts believe that the chip operation could show stronger growth of around 20% in 2000. ..... Jim