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To: Margarita who wrote (21735)	7/13/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Margarita, the article is worth reading. Thank you! Excerpt... The main culprits are chip overcapacity, especially in the memory market, which has hindered new fab construction; and the Asian economic problems that have restricted the flow of capital to pay for multibillion-dollar chip factories. "We think it will bottom out in 1999," said Myers, "but the range of estimates we received from the CEOs was from 12 months through the year 2000." GM bold emphasis mine