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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (13401)	12/15/1997 5:22:00 PM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Given the combination of rising costs for manufacturing equipment and the prolonged slide in the price of DRAM -- South Korea's leading semiconductor export -- the country's chip manufacturers will likely find it hard to keep pace with their competitors. "These companies have violated the financial speed limit," said Dan Hutcheson, president of VLSI Research, in San Jose, Calif. "And now the market is handing out speeding tickets." Brian-I don't think the IMF will let them do it.