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To: Gottfried who wrote (19677)	5/26/1998 5:54:00 AM
From: Michael Ohlendorf	Respond to of 70976

Korea down another rocking 6% over night to an X months low while European bourses continue their stellar rise from yesterday. Germany up to another all time high (the 2X's) with no correction in sight. However, Germany's unemployment rate also at an all time high with no sign of improvement in sight either. How does this all fit together ? The most important question however seems to be: Can it continue like this ?

To: Gottfried who wrote (19677)	5/26/1998 10:57:00 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Ball IC's- Threat to AMAT and the equipment sector?? pubs.cmpnet.com Excerpt:It was nearly 30 years ago when Ishikawa first began thinking about the possibility of spherical semiconductor technology. But he didn't believe the concepts were commercially viable until the 1990s when the cost of building a wafer fab exploded as wafer diameters grew to 8 and 12 inches. His plan is to shift semiconductor manufacturing from a wafer-based batch processing model to a highly flexible fabrication system that will be capable of spitting out balls with a variety of individual IC functions at a rate of 2,500 per second.