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To: djane who wrote (52371)	8/20/1998 10:55:00 AM
From: djane	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

Data Race Sues [LU]; Seeks To Prevent Lucent From Marketing Integrated Voice/Data Products PR Newswire - August 20, 1998 05:14 SAN ANTONIO, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- DATA RACE (Nasdaq: RACE) announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court in San Antonio, Texas, against Lucent Technologies (NYSE: LU), citing patent infringement and other related issues. The Company seeks unspecified damages and a permanent injunction prohibiting Lucent Technologies from violating the Company's intellectual property rights. The Company is also asking the Court to issue a preliminary injunction prohibiting Lucent from marketing and selling the Virtual Telephone system. DATA RACE believes that Lucent, with its Virtual Telephone system and Internet Telephony Server products, is infringing upon patent number 5,764,639 issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in June, 1998, and assigned to DATA RACE. The patent is entitled "System and Method for Providing a Remote User with a Virtual Presence to an Office." The Company places a high value on its intellectual property and intends to aggressively protect its patent and other property rights. Risks Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains various "forward-looking statements" which represent the Company's expectations or beliefs concerning future events, including the value of its intellectual property and the validity of the lawsuit. The Company cautions that these forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties and are qualified by important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include the inability of the Company to fully pursue such suit due to limited resources, uncertainty as to the source of funding to pay the total amount of legal expenses, the court's interpretations and decisions regarding the Company's allegation in the lawsuit (including their effect on the validity or enforceability of the Company's patents), and the risk of costly counter suits. While the Company believes that it will prevail, litigation by its very nature is unpredictable. Should the Company fail to prevail in a significant manner, such failure may have a material adverse effect on the Company's financial condition and operations. About DATA RACE, Inc. DATA RACE, Inc. (http://www.datarace.com) designs, manufactures, and markets a line of communications products for remote access to the corporate environment. Its unique client/server product, the Be There!(TM) Remote Access System, gives teleworkers access to all elements of corporate communications networks, including the PBX, Intranet, and Internet. Through Be There!, remote workers send and receive e-mail, faxes and phone calls simultaneously over a single phone line. DATA RACE also designs and manufactures advanced network multiplexers that carry data, network, voice and fax traffic among a company's multiple offices. DATA RACE products are resold nationally through Inacom Communications and Data General Corp., and through many regional resellers. SOURCE DATA RACE /CONTACT: John Liviakis or Bob Prag, both of Liviakis Financial Communications, 916-448-6084, for DATA RACE; or Katie Trout, Investor Relations of DATA RACE, 210-263-2066/ /Web site: datarace.com (RACE LU) Headlines Previous Story Next Story RACE LU %TLS %LAW V%PRN P%PRN

To: djane who wrote (52371)	8/20/1998 12:09:00 PM
From: djane	Respond to of 61433

INTERVIEW-Lucent says Singapore chip plan on track Thursday August 20, 4:01 am Eastern Time By Josephine Ng SINGAPORE, Aug 20 (Reuters) - U.S. telecommunications equipment company Lucent Technologies Inc (LU - news) said on Thursday its planned US$1.0 billion joint venture in Singapore to make integrated circuits (ICs) was on track. ''It is progressing as planned,'' Lucent's Asia-Pacific chief executive officer Michael Butcher told Reuters. Lucent has a 51-percent stake in the joint venture with Singapore's Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd (CSM). The partnership, Silicon Manufacturing Partners Pvt Ltd, will produce eight-inch wafers using 0.25 micron processing technology and at full capacity will produce 26,000 of them a month. Production was scheduled to start in the fourth quarter this year, Lucent said in January. The venture is expected to migrate to 0.18 micron processing technology by 2000. Earlier this month, CSM said its $1.0 billion joint venture with Hewlett-Packard Co Ltd (HWP - news) was delayed by a year to 2000 due to Asia's economic crisis and a depressed semiconductor market. Butcher said Lucent's Silicon Manufacturing was able to proceed as planned because it was producing to meet world demand rather than just for Asia. But as there was an overall softness in global demand for semiconductors, Lucent had made adjustments, he said. ''It is all going ahead. My best understanding is in the start-up process we are being careful that we don't get ahead of ourselves,'' he said, to explain what he meant by adjustments. Butcher said any increase in its output of chip products in Thailand would not be at the expense of Singapore. He said the chip plant in Thailand also catered to the world market while Lucent's other plants in Asia making switches and infrastructure telecoms equipment supplied the region. Lucent's telephone switch manufacturing operation in Indonesia was significantly cut down by the country' economic problems. Output might not improve to pre-crisis level for a few years, he said. Lucent, which has undertaken a blitz of acquisitions in the last nine months, including a bid for Australia's JNA Telecommunications Ltd (JNA.AX), was looking for more purchases, strategic partnerships and investments throughout the region, Butcher said. ''We have not reduced our investment levels in the region and in some ways in the next year or two, we're probably going to increase them,'' he said. Later at a news conference to announce a $8.0 million regional training and education centre in Singapore, Butcher said Lucent saw flat revenues from the Asia-Pacific region in fiscal year 1998 and planned 20 percent growth in fiscal 1999. He said the region contributed more than 10 percent of the company's global sales of $26.4 billion for the year ended September 30, 1997. Lucent would announce major contracts from the region covering a spectrum of technologies in the next six weeks and was also bidding in StarHub's tender to build all aspects of its telecom infrastructure in Singapore, he said. StarHub is a consortium made up of British Telecom (quote from Yahoo! UK & Ireland: BT.L), Nippon Telegragh and Telephone Corp (9432.T), Singapore Power and Singapore Technologies Telemedia. The group, awarded a licence to provide basic telecoms services as well a licence for mobile phone services in Singapore from 2000, has said it would invest Singapore $2.0 billion on its network over seven to nine years. More Quotes and News: Hewlett-Packard Co (NYSE:HWP - news) Lucent Technologies Inc (NYSE:LU - news) Related News Categories: international Help Copyright c 1998 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon See our Important Disclaimers and Legal Information. Questions or Comments?