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To: Big Bucks who wrote (9534)	10/24/1997 10:27:00 PM
From: Jeff Mills	Respond to of 70976

If my data is correct, the 61.2 Million shares AMAT traded today were an all time record. Previous record was around 52 Million last October, the day AMAT broke out (as did the whole sector, really) on all those upgrades. I bought AMAT on that day, and by golly I bought AMAT again today. Here is to a better week next week. Cheers! JM

To: Big Bucks who wrote (9534)	10/25/1997 2:06:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Big Bucks, government subsidies for fabs are discussed in a new CMP article... Subsidies Are Becoming The Name Of The Game (10/24/97; 5:00 p.m. EDT) By J. Robert Lineback, Semiconductor Business News techweb.com Excerpt: Government grants and subsidies certainly played a key role in AMD's decision to build its first offshore wafer-processing plant in Dresden, Germany. The chip maker negotiated guaranteed bank loans and $550 million in grants and subsidies from the governments of Germany and Saxony. It will build an 8-inch wafer fab to turn out AMD's K7 microprocessors beginning in early 1999. During the next 10 years, $1.9 billion in investments are earmarked for the Dresden site, which could also be expanded. GM