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To: energyplay who wrote (82434)	12/22/2000 8:13:32 AM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

OT: NSM You are right. NSM doesn't have good pricing power. They make a lot of base chips, mostly from the acquisition of Fairchild Semiconductor. They will hurt badly from a slowdown in PC production, and the channel is stuffed pretty full at the moment. While they do have a (8 inch I believe) high tech fab in Maine making CPU's (unless they sold it in the last 2 years), it is right next to a Fairchild fab making simple chips on 4 inch wafers. Additionally the CPU Fab was having a very difficult time trying to catch up with Intel on clock speeds when I worked there. Bottom line is there are much better choices in this environment than NSM. Now I suppose I'll get slammed by the NSM stockholders! :o)