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To: SidStock who wrote (11113)	6/6/1998 6:42:00 PM
From: R Stevens	Respond to of 14577

Full story at: eetimes.com "Taiwan has just fallen off a cliff," said Mark FitzGerald, who tracks the semiconductor equipment industry for Merrill Lynch (San Francisco). Much of the drop in wafer demand has happened in just the last few weeks, he added. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), based here, the largest of the pure-play foundries and a bastion of hope amid Asia's turmoil, is operating at roughly 80 percent fab capacity, officials confirmed. TSMC started the year at 100 percent capacity. Managers at Taiwan's United Microelectronics Corp. and Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. reported their foundries are operating at about 80 percent capacity levels as well.