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To: Rob S. who wrote (126303)	10/17/2000 1:30:13 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1580148

Re: "Semiconductors are commodities and will soon sell in grocery stores next to potato chips. The cycle for semiconductors is headed down because there is nothing anyone can do with them to gain greater productivity or enjoyment." This is nonsense. I never saw a potato chip factory that cost $2 Billion to build and was obsolete in a couple of years. Only a small number of companies have state of the art process technology which is mandatory for leading edge technology. The world's hunger for semiconductors is growing at a much faster rate than potato chips and the design marketing and manufacturing infastructure supporting the semiconductor industry isn't something any commodity company can put together on a whim. I rank this post as one of the alltime ignorant posts. EP