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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (36911)	8/5/1998 1:23:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 53903

Sales of Japan Windows 98 Reach 250,000 Copies in Two Days: IDC August 5, 1998 (TOKYO) -- Microsoft Co., Ltd.'s Japanese version of the Windows 98 operating system enjoyed sales of 250,000 units on July 25 and July 26, excluding those pre-installed in personal computers, according to IDC Japan Ltd. While the Japanese version of Windows 95, which was launched on Nov. 23, 1995, sold 200,000 copies in the initial four days, Windows 98 sales in the recent two-day period far exceeded that record. The IDC survey is based on research on users and sales channels. Also, the company developed estimates on sales of PCs with pre-installed Windows (Windows 98/95/3.1) based upon the survey data collected by GfK Japan Ltd. GfK Japan regularly collects POS data from 3,200 stores operated nationwide by 55 major household electric appliance retailers. While about 33,500 PCs with Windows 95 were sold in the initial week including the launch day (Nov. 20-26, 1995), about 57,000 PCs preinstalled with Windows 98 were sold in the first week including the launch day (July 20-26, 1998). This represents a 70.1 percent increase for Windows 98 as compared with Windows 95. Based on these results, IDC concluded that the household-use PC market is beginning to show some signs of recovery. That market had been registering some year-on-year declines. nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (36911)	8/5/1998 1:40:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

Hyundai Elec says Scottish JV talks with Intel off SEOUL, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Hyundai Electronics Industries Co Ltd (KOREA:00660), a unit of South Korea's Hyundai Group 1/8HYGR.CN 3/8, said on Wednesday talks with U.S. chip producer Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) on a $1.15 billion joint venture in Scotland had broken off. "Hyundai and Intel failed to reach an agreement on the joint venture," said Lee Kwang-suk, a spokesman at Hyundai Electronics. "We plan no further talks with Intel about the Scotland project, but cooperation in other areas is possible," he said. The British daily The Times said in Wednesday's edition Intel was in talks with Hyundai Group about forming a joint venture to use the Korean company's semiconductor plant in Scotland. Hyundai suspended construction of a semiconductor plant in Scotland in February in the aftermath of a financial crisis which forced South Korea to accept a record $58.35 billion International Monetary Fund-led bailout last December. Spokesman Lee said Hyundai was talking with some other foreign companies for a joint venture, but refused to give further details. The Times said Intel and Hyundai were considering producing memory chips 16 times more powerful than those made by Germany's Siemens AG (FSE:SIEG) at its northeast England plant which closed last week. The newspaper said the Hyundai plant was one of the few available with the capacity to produce 256 megabyte chips.