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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (40278)	12/1/2000 5:10:07 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

from the article: "Some semiconductor-equipment markets--including ion-implantation, lithography, and others--will remain robust in 2001, other analysts speculated. But others like back-end assembly and test gear could be in for a hard landing, they added." Is it possible to have a cyclic downturn in back-end, but not in front-end? Has that ever happened in any other downturn? Maybe someone from the industry could elucidate.