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To: Harvey Allen who wrote (10862)	9/1/2005 2:12:19 PM
From: jimtracker1	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14464

2. Flash Memory Chips Poised to Take Off Reuters is reporting that high demand for flash memory chips - popular in hot-selling music players and digital cameras - will accelerate later this year, although prices will stay weak as industry leader Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. holds them down. According to the news service, Samsung, which controls nearly 60% of the NAND flash market, is cutting prices in a bid to woo electronics makers to use the erasable and rewritable memory chips and undermine emerging rivals. "Demand for NAND flash (a memory chip technology developed by Toshiba) is going to be explosive in the run-up toward the Christmas holiday season, driven largely by MP3 players and digital cameras," said iSuppli analyst Nam Hyung Kim. The global NAND flash market is expected to grow by 65% to $10.9 billion in 2007, according to iSuppli. During that period, overall microchip shipments are likely to expand only 24%, according to industry body World Semiconductor Trade Statistics. Demand will also escalate as more mobile phone makers include MP3 features in their high-end photo-snapping cell phones. Samsung said NAND has been undersupplied for most of 2005, except for a short period at the start of the April-June quarter. "The NAND market should be very tight until the end of 2006, due to entry of next-generation devices like 2-gigabyte and 4-gigabyte MP3 players, high-density memory cards and 3G (third-generation) handsets," said a Samsung spokesman. Tracking market leader Samsung is Japan's Toshiba Corp., which has a 28% share. South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and U.S.-based Micron Technology Inc. also make flash chips. Despite the strong demand, analysts and industry officials expect the price to fall further as Samsung cuts prices. "We expect NAND prices to show a steeper drop toward the end of the year - 15% in Q3 and 30% in Q4, with an overall decline of 50% in 2005," the Samsung spokesman said.

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (10862)	9/1/2005 4:45:30 PM
From: NightOwl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14464

Hi Harvey A, I don't know the specifics at this point but its pretty clear that a fairly large "split" has opened up between the Mayor of New Orleans and the other politicians involved in this disaster. I expect we'll see some major mud slinging between dems/repubs, white/black before the mud cakes, drys up and blows away. FEMA has found a black Lt. Col. w/N.O. connections to "take the point" on the roll of the guard/military in solving these problems. That bankruptcy law may wind up with the quickest amendment/repealer in history. But laws are easy when the social fabric starts to peel away. They've already told the IRS, banks, insurers and other creditors to forget collections/foreclosures for the time being. I hope I'm wrong but I truly don't think any Americans understand the scope of this kind of disaster and I believe too many people are expecting too much from government and politicians. Laws can always be fixed. But if people aren't all on the same page. If they don't see the same truths. If they don't have equivalent and accurate information. When stress hits it can pull them apart far easier and faster than it brings them together. Forget the hurricane(s). It's pretty clear now that no one in New Orleans, Louisiana, or anywhere else, had an actual disaster plan to cover a major breach of the Levees. Or if it did, it wasn't implemented for some reason. My guess is that this is a "sore" point with the Mayor. Either by design, or by his own choice, he's at best "out of the loop" and at worst... "in revolt" about what is going on. Lord a'mighty. I just heard CNN's evening show high-lighting the poverty/racial demographics of all this... Harvey, I don't know. I just don't know. But I do know people are dying and death has no color. And I know that it may be fun to kick a politician every now and then, but in the end they are in fact "us." And without them we're pretty much just a bunch of predators, scavengers and prey. 0\|0