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To: uu who wrote (14504)	1/12/1998 6:24:00 PM
From: derek cao	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Addi, Vitesse makes gallium arsenide integrated circuits (GaAs ICs). AMAT does not produce GaAs equipment. Brian, For Lattice: Revenue for the quarter was $60.0 million, up 18 percent from the $51.0 million reported in the same quarter a year ago but a decrease of six percent from last quarter's revenue of $64.1 million. For MOT: Semiconductor Products Segment For the year, segment sales increased 2 percent to $8.0 billion, orders were up 17 percent and segment operating profits were lower, due to a special charge taken in the second quarter related to the decision to phase out of participation in the Dynamic Random Access Memory market. Excluding this charge, operating profits increased. For the fourth quarter, sales were up 11 percent to $2.1 billion, orders rose 10 percent, and the segment had an operating profit compared with a loss a year ago. Order growth in the quarter was highest in Europe, followed by the Americas, Japan and the rest of Asia. Among major market segments, orders were higher in communications, industrial, automotive, consumer and distribution. Computer orders were lower. derek