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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (19413)	5/13/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Clarksterh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Kathy - However, the industry-wide chip average selling price has gone up an average 12% per year (data from WSTS and IC Insights). I don't think so. If it were so then the modern PC's would cost a fortune. After all, the 486 would be 24% (2 years between) more than the 386 which would be 24% more than the 286, ... . Those 486's would have cost a mint. Same with cell phones. I think what you really mean is that the total revenues of much of semiconductor market is not increasing. But that is different than talks about deflation. Clark