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To: Urlman who wrote (34276)	7/13/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Jan Crawley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

Call options this morning: 550 call contracts, Feb 99, strike price of $20, at approx. $3 1/2 premium. 160 call contracts, Jan 00, strike price of $20, at approx. $5. Both bid/ask prices are up currently from the above executed prices. I do not know if the above means anything; maybe others would like to comment? Ty.

To: Urlman who wrote (34276)	7/13/1998 4:07:00 PM
From: John Rieman	Respond to of 50808

Matsushita's DVD chip set................................ techweb.com July 13, 1998, Issue: 1016 Section: Semiconductors -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matsushita narrows its focus for system-chip era David Lammers Tokyo - In the semiconductor industry's integration horse race, the latest steeds to run are single-chip implementations of cellular phones, digital still cameras, DVD drives and other mass-market applications. The race to develop a one-chip DVD controller is particularly interesting, because it pits Japanese competitors such as Matsushita, Hitachi and Toshiba against chip makers that are not tightly linked with the DVD hardware consortium, such as Cirrus Logic, LSI Logic and others. The test is an important one for Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd., the world's largest maker of televisions and other consumer electronics. Unlike many semiconductor vendors, which proffer a laundry list of system-on-chip designs, Matsushita has specific targets in mind as it reorganizes for the system-chip era: digital audiovisual, including set-top boxes and digital TVs; optical storage, including DVD players; displays; wideband CDMA smart phones; and the Intelligent Transportation System being developed in Japan to provide in-car traffic updates and other information to travelers. Matsushita completed a 10-chip DVD chip set in 1996, followed by a second-generation chip set with five ICs in 1997. It consisted of a servo DSP, an MCU, an MPEG-2 decode chip with built-in copy-protection circuitry, a 4-Mbit DRAM with error-correction control and a front-end servo chip with the read channel and preamplification functions.