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Technology Stocks : ADI: The SHARCs are circling! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Meghan Richards who wrote (847)	3/11/1998 10:47:00 AM
From: Nhiem Nguyen	Respond to of 2882

Company Press Release SOURCE: Analog Devices, Inc. Analog Devices Introduces World's Smallest Digital Signal Processor Qualcomm CDMA Technology and RIM Wireless Two-Way Pager Benefit from New 16-Bit DSPs Portable Consumer Electronics Get Smaller, More Efficient and Less Expensive NORWOOD, Mass., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) today introduced new members of the ADSP-218x family of digital signal processors (DSP), including the world's smallest DSP. The ADSP-2183, ADSP-2187L and ADSP-2189L DSPs enable portable consumer electronics to be reduced in size while increasing processing speeds, extending operating time and reducing production costs. The ADSP-2183 is approximately 50% smaller than any other DSP available.........

To: Meghan Richards who wrote (847)	3/11/1998 7:54:00 PM
From: BostonView	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2882

Another strong day today. My take on "what's up" is that ADI is finally seeing the end of its Rodney Dangerfield era. They are fast becoming a formidable competitor on the DSP front and show great promise in DSL. Worthy of an investment in its own right. Then again, somebody may see them as a juicy takeover candidate. This is purely my own speculation, but if I were a Lucent with 28% of the DSP market (and lots of richly valued stock currency) interested in knocking TI (45% of DSPs) out of it's #1 spot, ADI's 12% would look mighty tempting. Needles to say, there are other viable suitors in the picture....ADI looks ripe for the plucking.