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To: Chemsync who wrote (26940)	12/19/1997 11:56:00 PM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

Next week's Semiconductor Business News Excerpts................... techweb.cmp.com Panasonic's show stopper A single-chip digital TV video decoder has been developed by Panasonic AVC American Labs that will be the key component in the DTV decoder set-top box that Panasonic is ready to launch at the Winter CES in Vegas in early January, Junko Yoshida reports in EE Times. Targeted for full-spec HDTVs as well as for down-converter boxes and DTV add-in cards for PCs, the silicon is the industry's first single-chip device that can decode and display ATSC-specified DTV signals in native video or down-converted formats, Matsushita's U.S. lab claims. The decoder will cost less than $100 in large volume orders. ------------------------ Good year ahead for chips? Despite all the bad vibes coming from the Far East, market researchers tell EE Times' Margaret Ryan that the semiconductor industry will do a lot better in '98 than in the two preceding years. They figure that South Korea's economic dive will force chip makers there to put fab-expansion plans on hold, easing overcapacity and stabilizing memory chip prices. Dataquest's Jim Handy says '98 IC sales will climb 16.7%, up from this year's 5.6% increase as IC-fab investments fall and DRAM prices rise. He expects global memory IC sales to grow to $39 billion, up 18% from '97's disastrous $33 billion. Vladi Catto, TI's economist, agrees. "We have a recovery in progress," he says, and it's going to benefit chip makers selling to wireless com, networking, and computer industries. He doesn't see Asia's problems hurting IC sales.