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To: Donald Wennerstrom who wrote (15439)	5/27/2004 3:51:47 PM
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From Briefing.com: 2:10PM Semi Index --SOX-- reverses near 200 day : -- Technical -- The index (SOX 479.57, +0.2%) has held on to a positive bias throughout but it is hovering just above the session low (478.19) after the early failure near resistance at 484/485 (200 day simple mov avg, 62% retrace of April/May slide). A minor secondary support is at 476 followed by 474/473 (50 day sma/ema, congest). The key to maintaining this week's favorable chart posture is for the index to stabilize near/above these averages and the breakout point at 470. 9:01AM NVIDIA works with Intel on PCI Express (NVDA) 22.50: Co announced that Intel Corp will be using NVIDIA's top-to-bottom family of PCI Express graphics processing units (GPU), as part of Intel's PCI Express-enabled chipset launch programs. Intel has purchased several thousand NVIDIA PCI Express enabled GPUs which Intel will be using for: platform level testing; software development kits; channel seed kits; technical solutions training; and various demo systems. 8:43AM QLogic names new CFO (QLGC) 27.35: Co announced the appointment of Tony Massetti to the position of vice president and CFO, effective immediately. He replaces Frank Calderoni, whose resignation had been previously announced in February. Massetti has served the company as interim CFO since Calderoni's departure and previously held the position of vice president of finance for two years at QLogic. 8:06AM ASM Intl NV announces wins for PECVD and RTP at Japanese electronics manufacturer (ASMI) 20.69: Co announces that it has been selected by the major Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer for critical process equipment at the customer's new 300 mm/90 nanometer production facility. Deliveries of ASM's Eagle-12 Single-Wafer Plasma Enhanced CVD and Levitor 4300 Rapid Thermal Processing systems are scheduled to begin in Q4. 7:41AM Motorola signs new multi-year credit agreement (MOT) 19.92: Motorola announced that it has signed a new multi-year revolving credit agreement effective May 26, 2004 for $1 bln, replacing two existing facilities totaling $1.6 billion on Wednesday . The facility is used as a commercial paper back-up facility and has never been utilized. There was significant demand for participation in the facility. 7:27AM Skyworks to offer licenses for its selectable mode vocoder technology (SWKS) 9.07: Skyworks today announced that licensing rights for the patented and proprietary Selectable Mode Vocoder technology incorporated in mobile handset applications, are immediately available on a fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory basis. SMV is a technology that is capable of increasing subscriber capacity by up to 75 percent, while improving the quality of wireless voice communications for the consumer.