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To: James Knight who wrote (305)	12/16/1997 6:12:00 PM
From: Oaktree	Respond to of 723

James: Yes I did. It was very upbeat. The replay number is:(800) 475-6701, access code #366914. Miki

To: James Knight who wrote (305)	12/17/1997 1:13:00 AM
From: vinh pham	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 723

ESI Announces Multiple Unit Order from Lucent Technologies for Vision Products PORTLAND, Ore. Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Electro Scientific Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: ESIO) announced an order in excess of $600,000 from Lucent Technologies for multiple units of its ScribeRead, ScribeAlign and ScribeView machine vision products. The units will be shipped to Lucent's Allentown and Reading, Pennsylvania production plants. These plants manufacture MOS devices such as ASIC's and DSP's in addition to bipolar, high voltage and other integrated circuits. ScribeRead provides Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capability to read identification scribes on semiconductor wafers. ScribeAlign provides industry-proven, highly-optimized pattern matching for aligning wafers and individual die. ScribeView illuminators complement ScribeRead software by providing illumination modes that are designed to make real-world variations in soft and hard mark scribes easier to read. Jim Field, General Manager of ESI's Vision Products Division, said "This order with Lucent validates our commitment to providing the best vision solutions possible to customers. ESI's long history in the wafer fabrication environment allows us to leverage that experience to create machine vision products that truly meet our customers' needs." About Lucent Lucent Technologies, headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey, designs, builds and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm of Lucent. For more information on Lucent Technologies, visit the website lucent.com. About ESI ESI, headquartered in Portland, Oregon, designs and manufactures sophisticated products used around the world in electronics manufacturing including: laser manufacturing systems for semiconductor yield improvement; production and test equipment for the manufacture of surface mount ceramic capacitors; laser trim systems for precise electrical tuning of circuits; precision laser and mechanical drilling systems for electronic interconnect; and machine vision systems. Electro Scientific Industries is traded on the Nasdaq National Market System under the symbol, "ESIO." ESI's web site is esio.com. /CONTACT: Larry Rapp, investor relations, 503-671-5446, or Kimberly McAlear, press relations, 503-671-5233, both of ESI/