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To: James L. Fleckenstein who wrote (43908)	1/5/1998 9:14:00 AM
From: VICTORIA GATE, MD	Respond to of 186894

good day hold on your stocks Dataquest Reports Top 3 Semiconductor Vendors Maintain their Market Position in 1997; Intel's Revenue is Nearly Double its Nearest Competitor, NEC Business Wire - January 05, 1998 08:16 %DATAQUEST GART %CALIFORNIA %CONNECTICUT %COMPUTERS %ELECTRONICS %COMED V%BW P%BW -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jump to first matched term SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 1998--The worldwide semiconductor market should rebound back with positive growth in 1997, as the market is projected to grow 5.5 percent in 1997, according to Dataquest, a market research unit of Gartner Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:GART). Dataquest hasn't completed final results for the industry, but the most recent estimate is the worldwide semiconductor market will reach $150 billion for 1997. Intel remained the market leader in 1997, with semiconductor revenue surpassing $21 billion (see Table 1). "Led by microprocessors, Intel grew its semiconductor revenue by nearly 20 percent during the year, which is strong performance in face of major inventory adjustments by PC OEMs," said Ron Bohn, director for Dataquest's Worldwide Semiconductor Research Operations. "The weakening of currencies like the Korean won and Japanese yen against the U.S. dollar, however, exacerbated low memory IC pricing. This meant another year of revenue decline or no growth for a host of memory-dependent companies as measured in dollars." Table 1 Top 10 Worldwide Semiconductor Vendors by Revenue Estimates (Millions of U.S. Dollars) 1996 1997 1996 1997 1996-1997 Rank Rank Company Revenue Revenue Growth (%) 1 1 Intel 17,781 21,083 18.6 2 2 NEC 10,428 10,656 2.2 3 3 Motorola 8,076 8,120 0.5 6 4 Texas Instruments 7,064 7,660 8.4 5 5 Toshiba 8,065 7,507 -6.9 4 6 Hitachi 8,071 6,523 -19.2 7 7 Samsung 6,464 6,010 -7.0 8 8 Fujitsu 4,427 4,872 10.1 9 9 Philips 4,219 4,435 5.1 11 10 Mitsubishi 4,100 4,097 -0.1 Source: Dataquest (January 1998) The Dataquest Perspective titled "Intel, NEC, and Motorola Remain atop the Worldwide Semiconductor Market" provides the top 20 worldwide rankings and top 10 rankings for semiconductor companies in four geographic regions. Dataquest has not completed final results for the overall semiconductor market, so complete market share figures are not available at this time. The results of the detailed survey of all semiconductor companies and their 1997 product revenue, memory unit shipments, and MPU/MCU/DSP unit shipments will be available in the second quarter of 1998. To purchase this Perspective, or subscribe to Dataquest's Semiconductors Worldwide program, please call 800/419-DATA. More information about Dataquest's programs, descriptions of recent research reports, and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at dataquest.com . Dataquest, a unit of Gartner Group, Inc., has been providing global market research and consulting services for the high-technology and financial communities since 1971. Dataquest provides worldwide market coverage on the semiconductor, computer systems and peripherals, communications, document management, software, and services sectors of the information technology industry. As the world's leading authority on IT, GartnerGroup provides clients with a wide range of products and services in the areas of IT advisory services, measurement, research, decision support, analysis, consulting and training. Founded in 1979, with headquarters in Stamford, Conn., GartnerGroup is at the center of a global community of more than 9,000 client organizations served by analysts in 80 locations worldwide. Additional information about the company is available on the Internet at gartner.com .