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To: shane forbes who wrote (8219)	12/9/1997 12:05:00 PM
From: shane forbes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25814

Have never figured out why the Japanese conglomerates like Sony don't make their own chips for consumer electronics gadgets. This article may be a clue (stretching it a bit!!!) : techweb.com Many a Japanese chip chieftain finds himself in a real dilemma now. "Japanese electronic companies are very large conglomerates, and when DRAMs were making lots of money in 1994-95, that covered lower earnings of other divisions in many companies," said Tsuyoshi Kawanishi, principal consultant for Toshiba and former senior executive vice president of the electronic conglomerate. As a result, "executives of these other divisions then were very happy to approve large capital spending by the semiconductor division," Kawanishi said. "But now that DRAMs are in such poor financial straits, the other division executives don't want to go along with a larger capital spending budget for their semiconductor group." ---- Or basically the Japanese have not learnt from their past mistakes that allowed the Koreans to enter definitively into their DRAM market. Of course this means that with the Koreans and Japanese not spending enough (Koreans - new thing because of economic problems) the U.S. companies and their fabs should maintain a leading-edge advantage. (Stretching a bit again). Which would be good for LSI (stretching once again.)

To: shane forbes who wrote (8219)	12/9/1997 12:13:00 PM
From: E. Graphs	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25814

Hi Shane, I like the PlayStation news. It's that same p-sunish market doing what it does best.......buying what it wants most. So glad that they like the PlayStation best, most likely b/c of a superior game selection. OT Found a cool pen while shopping for presents. It's a Fisher Space Pen..........ink will not dry out in 100 years, writes under water and over grease at -50 degrees to +400 degrees F. I bought one and now I'm thinking of ways to test it, but I'm stumped on the ink drying out part. Good luck trading, E