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To: John Rieman who wrote (26945)	12/20/1997 1:00:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Good news from your article.......... The consumer segment's best bet in Asia next year may be China, which consumes 90 percent of the world's output of video CD players and is seeking to exert greater influence on the global electronics market. Back home, Ford noted any upward ratcheting of interest rates could spell trouble for the U.S. market for DVD players, large-screen TVs and other "home theater" equipment, since many consumers use credit cards to make such purchases. That could play havoc with the semiconductor industry. For now, however, Dataquest is predicting that the market for consumer-electronics chips will total $26.5 billion in 1998, a 9.8 percent increase over 1997's $24.1 billion market.