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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (48862)	7/8/2001 6:05:59 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Respond to of 70976

The question was rhetoric (thus te reference to the gravity vector <g>). The real issue, IMHO, is what are going to be technological drives to continue the trek of cost reduction and improved performance. These advances have opened new and growing applications for semiconductors, but sometime in our life time, that curve may flatten, and we will need a new driver. It may not even be in the chips field, and if it does not appear, we may even run into some stagnation until a new "technological revolution" of similar magnitude comes along. Zeev