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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (19234)	5/9/1998 3:09:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

New driver for IC/PC growth? It has been suggested by some that mere upgrades to Win98 would not be enough to spur sales of PC's, but that a new technology would be needed to drive PC growth in the coming years. This article affirms what many have been saying. pubs.cmpnet.com Excerpt: Shipments of DVD video players are expected to reach 500,000 units in the United States, with demand for DVD-ROM drives rising to 1.4 million units, driven by sales in the second half of the year of faster PCs incorporating the new drives along with MPEG-2 decoding software. 4-5 years down the road, maybe super fast bandwidth will be the driver. One thing is certain: the people who perenially proclaim the death of the PC market look like fools when new technologies emerge to take the spotlight. BK

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (19234)	5/9/1998 3:36:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Chartered still busy: CHARTERED RECRUITS MOTO VET Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor, which figures the chip industry is now in the midst of a paradigm shift, is going all out to expand its customer base in Europe and the U.S. To get on board, it has recruited Motorola Semiconductor exec Barry Waite as CEO, David Lammers reports in EE Times. Major chip makers are refocusing their organizations around systems, which will mean they will be releasing more of their manufacturing to production specialists like Chartered, he said. Chartered is busy now building joint-venture fabs with Hewlett-Packard and Lucent Technologies. Waite, 49, was a 16-year Moto veteran.