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To: yousef hashmi who wrote (36653)	7/29/1998 11:57:00 AM
From: Kathleen capps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

Yousef, The Street.com had a story about it today. According to them, the no press rule was recinded. Excerts from the story...... the LSI presentation was one of eight closed to the press, when the doors to the remaining 95 company presentations were open to all. Robbie Stephens warned the press that it would also be barred from talks by Microchip Technology (MCHP:Nasdaq), Texas Instruments (TXN:NYSE), VLSI Technology (VLSI:Nasdaq), RF Monolithics (RFMI:Nasdaq), Rambus (RMBS:Nasdaq), Intel (INTC:Nasdaq) and Micron (MU:NYSE). ...press lockout, its origins are a mystery. Robbie Stephens said the lockout was at the companies' request. But Kevin Brett, LSI director of corporate public relations, was stumped. "Nothing could be further from the truth," Brett said. "I don't know how this is getting out. The bottom line is we want people to come. We always want our presentations to be open." Texas Instruments spokeswoman Kim Quirk said her company had every intention of allowing reporters into its presentation. And Gary Harmon, vice president of finance at Rambus, was also perturbed. He said closing the session off to the press made no sense since he couldn't imagine any fuss coming from the talk he plans to give. Meanwhile, Robbie Stephens, after a morning of responding to an enraged press corps and a few publicity hungry semiconductor companies, reversed itself late Monday..... It announced that the doors to all company presentations, aside from any breakout sessions, would be open to all. The story says no reason was given for the no press rule but notes that all companies are covered by Dan Niles. MU is supposed to be talking at 4pm Thurs.