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To: Sidney Street who wrote (1391)	5/9/2001 2:31:40 PM
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To: Sidney Street who wrote (1391)	5/9/2001 4:16:52 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 1929

Taiwan foundries saw sales slide in April By Sun Pai-yi EE Times (05/09/01 11:32 a.m. EST) TAIPEI, Taiwan — Sales at the world's top two semiconductor foundries continued to slide in April, dropping 12 percent at United Microelectronics Corp. and 21 percent at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. The results confirmed many expectations that the second quarter would begin with a whimper and then painfully limp forward as the foundries try to keep operating margins from evaporating. TSMC offered no additional guidance for May beyond what its chairman, Morris Chang, said last week at an investors conference. After explaining gloomy first-quarter results, Chang said he believed the semiconductor industry slump would hit bottom in April or May. With TSMC's fab utilization rate expected to hover around 50 percent in the second quarter, analyst Eric Wang with ABN AMRO said Chang may be right. "Now is the realization of the worst," Wang said. "I expect a mild recovery in the third quarter, and a relatively strong rebound in the fourth." But Gartner Dataquest is forecasting a modest recovery in 2002. On Tuesday (May 8), the research firm once again revised its estimate of industry performance, saying a 17 percent decline was likely for this year, followed by a slow uptick. "In the third and fourth quarters TSMC's sales will be a little bit higher," said Henry Wang, an analyst at Entrust Securities. "But . . . there will be only a moderate recovery." April's numbers marked the fourth month of declining or flat revenues for TSMC. Sales for the month totaled $281 million, down from $358 million in March, but up 4 percent from a year ago. At UMC, sales totaled $177 million in April, down from $200 million in March and off 21 percent from a year ago. Both companies have predicted that sales in the second quarter would decline roughly 25-to-30 percent from the first quarter.

To: Sidney Street who wrote (1391)	5/10/2001 9:37:29 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1929

Varian Semiconductor Honored by Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd. -Hynix Semiconductor- GLOUCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 10, 2001--Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ:VSEA - news), a leading supplier of ion implantation systems, today announced the company has received the Best Vendor Support Award from Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd. (Hynix Semiconductor), an industry-leading manufacturer of semiconductors. The award, presented once every calendar year, is part of Hyundai Electronics program to acknowledge the dedication of key equipment companies to Hyundai Electronics production success and specifically recognize supplier efforts in providing their fabrication lines with unsurpassed production support. The award was accepted on behalf of Varian Semiconductor by Wan-Jung Choi, assistant service manager. ``For 16 years, Varian Semiconductor has demonstrated a strong commitment to customer satisfaction, and we are pleased to present this award as a sign of our appreciation,'' stated Jun-Oh Kim, senior managing director of Hyundai Electronics. ``In particular, we wish to recognize Varian Semiconductor's assistant service manager, Wan-Jung Choi, for organizing and implementing a support plan that resulted in the delivery of timely production solutions at our plant in Seoul. Very few vendors are considered for this award, and we are pleased to present it to Mr. Choi and Varian Semiconductor.'' Varian Semiconductor currently supports a number of key fabs at Hyundai Electronics where the company has a large installed base of high current, medium current and high energy implanters. Commenting on the Varian Semiconductor support efforts, Yong-Kil Kim, vice president and general manager of Asia operations stated, ``Wan-Jung Choi has been a key part of the Varian Semiconductor operations team for over seven years, managing the medium current and high energy product lines at Hyundai Electronics. It is a high honor to receive the Best Vendor Support Award from Hyundai Electronics and we want to thank them for acknowledging Varian Semiconductor with this esteemed award.'' Ernest Godshalk, president and chief operating officer of Varian Semiconductor commented, ``We are proud to accept this award as a sign of our continuing commitment to being the industry leader in customer satisfaction. Providing the industry's leading integrated circuit production lines with superior customer support is a major focus at Varian Semiconductor and is part of our overall efforts to improve customer production by providing leadership in critical implanter technologies and technical support.'' Ernest Godshalk added, ``Varian Semiconductor believes that our people are our most important asset, and we are delighted that Wan-Jung Choi has been selected to receive this prestigious award from Hyundai Electronics on behalf of Varian Semiconductor.'' About Varian Semiconductor: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates is a leading producer of ion implantation equipment used in the manufacture of semiconductors. The company is headquartered in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and operates worldwide. Varian Semiconductor maintains a web site at www.vsea.com. The information contained in our web site is not incorporated by reference into this release, and our web site address is included in this release as an inactive textual reference only. Note: This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For this purpose, the statements concerning the company's operating outlook, market share and technology leadership are forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking statements. These include, among others, volatility in the semiconductor equipment industry; economic conditions in general and as they affect the company's customers; significant fluctuations in the company's quarterly operating results; the impact of rapid technological change and the company's dependence on the development and introduction of new products; the company's concentration on ion implantation systems and related products; concentration in the company's customer base and lengthy sales cycles; the highly competitive market in which the company competes; risks of international sales; foreign currency risks; general economic conditions; and other factors identified in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company cannot guarantee any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievement. The company undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.

To: Sidney Street who wrote (1391)	5/23/2001 10:48:37 AM
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Varian Semiconductor Awarded Patent that Enables Simplified Semiconductor Manufacturing Post-Gate Ion Implantation Process and VIISta Platform Eliminate up to Four Mask Levels GLOUCESTER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2001-- Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ: VSEA - news), a leading supplier of ion implantation systems, today announced that U.S. Patent Number 6,187,643 for a simplified semiconductor device manufacturing using low energy high tilt angle and high energy post gate ion implantation (PoGI) was recently assigned to Varian Semiconductor. The Post-Gate Ion Implantation (PoGI) approach has the potential to reduce integrated circuit manufacturing costs by eliminating up to four of the masking levels required for device production. These cost savings advantages are made possible through the unique high tilt capability of Varian Semiconductor's single wafer VIISta platform of ion implanters. All VIISta systems can routinely achieve high tilt implants of up to 60 degrees in both the horizontal and vertical directions, which far exceeds the 10 degree implant angle limitations of spinning disk systems. Alan Sheng, Ph.D., Varian Semiconductor's vice president of engineering, commented, ``The PoGI process is one example of our continuing research and development efforts to create significant production advantages for our customers using the parallel beam capabilities of the VIISta platform. For high energy implants, we already offer our customers improved device isolation with tighter n+ to p+ spacing and additional mask count reduction opportunities with uniform through-gate implantation. Varian Semiconductor continues to be focused on providing our customers with leading technology products. Our research and development efforts are focused on both the ion implant system and the processes to utilize the capabilities of our implanters in production.'' John Borland, a senior scientist at Varian Semiconductor and the inventor stated, ``The PoGI process moves all the pre-gate implantation steps to post-gate stack formation. The VIISta 810 medium current or VIISta 3000 high energy ion implanters coupled with the VIISta 80 high current system are utilized for through-gate implant (TGI) and through-spacer implant (TSI) manufacturing steps. This process eliminates two nMOS and two pMOS masking levels.'' Commenting further, Borland added, ``The precise physical placement of the dopant ions provided by the highly parallel beam, single wafer systems has the potential to produce more uniform device parametrics across the wafer.'' Precise physical placement of dopants both vertically and laterally around the MOS gate stack structures can improve device performance. About Varian Semiconductor: Varian Semiconductor Equipment Associates is a leading producer of ion implantation equipment used in the manufacture of semiconductors. The company is headquartered in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and operates worldwide. Varian Semiconductor maintains a web site at www.vsea.com. The information contained in our web site is not incorporated by reference into this release, and our web site address is included in this release as an inactive textual reference only. Note: This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. For this purpose, the statements concerning the company's operating outlook, market share and technology leadership are forward-looking statements. There are a number of important factors that could cause actual events to differ materially from those suggested or indicated by such forward-looking statements. These include, among others, volatility in the semiconductor equipment industry; economic conditions in general and as they affect the company's customers; significant fluctuations in the company's quarterly operating results; the impact of rapid technological change and the company's dependence on the development and introduction of new products; the company's concentration on ion implantation systems and related products; concentration in the company's customer base and lengthy sales cycles; the highly competitive market in which the company competes; risks of international sales; foreign currency risks; general economic conditions; and other factors identified in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K, and the most recent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company cannot guarantee any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievement. The company undertakes no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release.