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To: Maya who wrote (27759)	1/8/1998 11:28:00 AM
From: Stoctrash	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

I think he means "listed"... as traded publicly?? Anyway...its not a bad thing.

To: Maya who wrote (27759)	1/8/1998 11:28:00 AM
From: Ian deSouza	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

I meant where they are compared to those companies that are listed on one of the exchanges. Notice where ZRAN is... I don't get it. ZORAN stats look pitifull compared with CUBE's. CUBE deserves a PE of 50!

To: Maya who wrote (27759)	1/8/1998 11:49:00 AM
From: BillyG	Respond to of 50808

MPEG1 camera gets award........... Hitachi Scores Innovations '98 Award at CES With Innovative MPEG Camera LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 1998--Adding to an ever-expanding list of awards and broad industry acclaim, Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc. announced today that its MPEG camera had received the prestigious Innovations '98 award at the 1998 Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Hitachi's MPEG camera, the world's only MPEG digital video camera, is capable of recording 20 minutes of real-time MPEG-1 video, 3,000 JPEG still images, or 1,000 still images with 10 seconds of audio for each still. It permits PC and Mac users to add video and still images to Web pages, in-house training videos, presentations and other Internet and Intranet applications. At 19.3 ounces, the camera is smaller than a conventional camcorder. All of its functions, including real-time compression, full motion video and playback, are handled by a single chip -- the MPEG-1 encoder/decoder (CODEC) LSI, developed by Hitachi, Ltd. The MPEG camera has been featured in many television and cable broadcasts and in nearly every major consumer and electronics publications including Business Week, Parade Magazine, PC Magazine, and Popular Electronics. Recently, PC Magazine awarded Hitachi its Technical Award for Excellence in the Digital Cameras/Imaging category for the MPEG camera. Innovations is the most recognized awards program in the consumer electronics industry, endorsed by the Industrial Designers Society of America and sponsored and produced by the Consumer Electronics Manufacturers Association (CEMA), a sector of the Electronic Industries Association (EIA). Each year, members of the trade press, engineers and industrial designers evaluate the best ideas in electronic hardware and software consumer design and engineering that are submitted by manufacturers of consumer electronics products marketed in the United States. Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc., a subsidiary of Hitachi America, Ltd., develops and markets a variety of consumer electronics and commercial multimedia products, including handheld computers and products for image capture and information access/multimedia. Hitachi America, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., Japan, markets and manufactures a broad spectrum of electronics, computer systems and products, and semiconductors, and provides industrial equipment and services throughout North America. Hitachi, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, is one of the world's leading global electronics companies with fiscal 1996 (ending March 31, 1997) consolidated sales of $68.7 billion. The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products, including computers, semiconductors, consumer products and power and industrial equipment. CONTACT: Hitachi Home Electronics (America), Inc. Lee Woodring, 770-279-5617 lee.woodring@halny.hitachi.com or Crescent Communications Andrew Dod, 404-287-2000 x129 adod@crescomm.com

To: Maya who wrote (27759)	1/8/1998 12:01:00 PM
From: BillyG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

TSMC, CUBE's foundry, has advanced process technology................ A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted at 10:30 a.m. EST/7:30 a.m. PST, 1/8/98 TSMC in production with 0.25-micron wafers HSINCHU, Taiwan -- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said today that it marked the end of 1997 by shipping production 0.25-micron wafers for a high-performance logic product. The chip was the first in an anticipated 10 products scheduled for 0.25-micron production in the first quarter of 1998. TSMC said it was the first foundry to commercialize 0.25-micron process technology, which economically accommodates 300-MHz system-on-chip products with up to 10 million transistors. TSMC is ramping this technology in three fabs, expecting to reach a capacity of 15,000 8-inch wafers per month in 1998 and much more in 1999. "In parallel, we are developing process options for mixed-signal, high-density embedded SRAM and embedded 1-T DRAM functions," said Ron Norris, president of TSMC USA. These process variations can be expected in the second quarter and second half of the year, he said; they will be 100% design compatible with the baseline logic process to allow full design reuse. TSMC's 0.25-micron logic process offers one poly layer, five metal layers, and borderless contact design rules, resulting in almost double the density of 0.35-micron technology. Dual gate oxides provide for 2.5- or 3.3-volt operating voltages with 5-V tolerance. To facilitate design reuse, the 0.25-micron process allows shrinks from 0.5-micron and 0.35-micron processes and has a built in shrink path to the 0.18-micron technology that will be introduced in 1999. To accelerate customers' time-to-market, TSMC is providing baseline design intellectual property with silicon-verified, process-optimized libraries of core cells and memories. These libraries will be expanded, in partnership with select IP vendors, to include specialized functions. WaferTech, the company's U.S. joint venture in Camas, Wash., will begin ramping to production in July 1998. In July 1997, TSMC broke ground on Fab 6, the first of 5 new fabs in Taiwan. Fab 6 will start production in 1999 and build to a capacity of 60,000 8-inch wafers per month. Subsequent fabs in Taiwan will be 12-inch (300-mm) lines, the company said. TSMC's 0.18-micron production schedule calls for work with several undisclosed partners for earliest production beginning in the second quarter of 1999.