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Technology Stocks : Lucent Technologies (LU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ftmp who wrote (3835)	8/28/1998 7:23:00 PM
From: Danny Hayden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

Lucent Intros Flash Technology For High-Volume DSPs (11:30 a.m. EDT, 8/28/98) Semiconductor Business News Lucent Technologies Inc.'s Microelectronics Group, Allentown, Pa., launched a new flash memory processing technology, which the company said will enable it to use non-volatile storage in fast digital signal processors for high-volume applications. Until now, most flash-embedded DSP processors have been used in system prototyping and low-volume designs, according to Lucent Microelectronics. Lucent said its new high-speed FlashDSP technology can be used in a variety of communications applications, such as portable telephones, cellular phones, pagers, digital answering machines, and modems. The flash technology will support DSPs operating up to 80 MIPs. That's twice as fast as competing processors, according to Lucent. At least one industry analyst liked what he's seen. "Lucent is ahead of the pack with this new fast-flash offering," said Alan Niebel, director of non-volatile memory at Semico Research Corp. in Phoenix. "Having fast flash is very much of a market differentiator and will be in the future. It's important for the speed of the flash to keep up with the DSP as demand for fast cycling continues to grow." According to the market research firm, the flash memory DSP revenues are expected to grow significantly in the next several years. In 1998, embedded flash memory DSP sales worldwide will be about $163 million, Semico said. Lucent said it has supported low-volume applications since it introduced an earlier generation of FlashDSP in 1994. But now it's taking aim at a growing high-volume market. "In the near future, manufacturers will be able to churn out their products by the millions without worrying about the costs of making changes, " predicted Rob Franzo, product line director of signal processing products with Lucent Microelectronics. "And they can do so with some of the industry's fastest DSPs." Lucent said the new technology will produce flash memory running at 12.5 nanoseconds using 3.3 volts of power supply and supporting DSP operations at up to 80 MIPS. These products will be produced with a flash technology module added to the company's 0.35-micron CMOS process. Samples of the 80-MIPs FlashDSPs are being made available to customers now with high-volume production slated by the second quarter of 1999. All material on this site Copyright c 1998 CMP Media Inc. All ri

To: ftmp who wrote (3835)	8/30/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: Sonki	Respond to of 21876

ot: yes. i buy on a downgrade and sell on an upgrade. works out pretty well. watch it break support(40, briefly) another 3-4 points down and all the downgrades will begin (asia, this that etc). down to 38 and when closes back up to 40 should be a good buy. Management does nothing to save the stock and could careless. 40-50 makes a nice trade. stock can go from 38-53. just my guess. one thing to note: company did come in with better then expected earning and higher rev/earning year over year. which some thing other companies have not doens in the same league (e.g. intc, hwp, sgi, dec, dg) etc. so it makes safe to trade incase u get stuck w. it. good luck to u.