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To: Jerome who wrote (45262)	4/9/2001 8:21:32 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Jerome, did you notice that you could substitute several other companies for AMAT [on the left] and still get "Who'll lead us out of the bear market?". Sort of a do-it-yourself head line. g.

To: Jerome who wrote (45262)	4/9/2001 8:35:01 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

TSMC, UMC say foundry sales drop over 25% in Q1 from Q4 Semiconductor Business News (04/09/01 12:23 p.m. EST) HSINCHU, Taiwan -- The world's two largest silicon foundries here today (April 9) said revenues were more than 25% sequentially lower in the first quarter of 2001 compared to sales in Q4 of 2000. Both foundries giants--Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and United Microelectronics Corp.--are being impacted by the severe downturn in the chip industry. TSMC--the world's largest foundry supplier--reported a 26.6% sequential drop in first-quarter sales from the prior three-month period, while UMC said its revenues declined 25.9% in Q1 compared to Q4. For the first quarter, TSMC's revenues totaled NT$39.52 billion ($1.2 billion), with March sales coming in at NT$11.75 billion ($358 million). TSMC said March revenues were 1.2% higher than NT$11.61 billion in February and 18.3% higher than NT$9.93 billion in March 2000. Meanwhile, UMC said its first-quarter revenues totaled NT$23.59 billion ($718 million) with March sales coming in at NT$6.59 billion ($201 million). UMC's March sales were 12.2% sequentially lower than NT$7.50 billion in February and 4.5% below NT$6.90 billion in March 2000. TSMC's first quarter revenues of NT$39.52 billion were 39.8% higher than NT$28.28 billion in the first quarter of 2000. UMC said its Q1 revenues of NT$23.59 billion were 22.2% higher than NT$19.31 billion in the first three months of 2000.