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To: Don Green who wrote (67636)	3/14/2001 4:16:39 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 93625

Chip-Making Equipment Orders Suffer 1st Fall In 23 Months Thursday, March 15, 2001 TOKYO (Nikkei)--Orders for semiconductor-fabricating equipment made in Japan, including exports, fell 15.9% year on year to 117.71 billion yen in January, the first drop since February 1999, due to reduced capital spending by Taiwanese and South Korean chipmakers. The figures were contained in a survey, released Wednesday by the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan, showing orders for wafer-processing equipment fell 16.7% to 76.17 billion yen, while assembly equipment orders plunged 54.0% to 6 billion yen. Orders for testing equipment dropped 2.0% to 29 billion yen. Prices of chips have been falling sharply since last autumn due to weak growth in demand for personal computers and mobile phones. More and more chipmakers in Taiwan and South Korea have been asking to postpone deliveries of chip-making equipment or canceling orders since the end of last year. (The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Thursday morning edition)