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To: Steve Lewis who wrote (9606)	9/16/1998 6:42:00 PM
From: Charlie Tuna	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11555

OT Brazil and Oct 4th elections and then.... washingtonpost.com Steve thanks for posting the post from yahoo. I agree that we have yet to see the BIG SELLOFF... I also agree that it will occurr before the end of 98. As far as IDTI it is very weak right now and so the overall SOX will move it up and down.I am just starting to research which semi's to grab after the bust but I may just do it the easy way and buy the sox. Charlie

To: Steve Lewis who wrote (9606)	9/18/1998 11:07:00 AM
From: Steve Lewis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11555

INTEL ANNOUNCES CUTS IN CHIP PRICES 09.18.98 Santa Clara, CA -- As Brooke Crothers reported for CNET News.com, In an effort to blanket the market with Pentium II technology, Intel announced price cuts across its line of chips. "Continued strong acceptance of Pentium II processors enables Intel to aggressively ramp these products into higher volume price points," the company said in a statement. After Intel introduced its "market segmentation" strategy -- which targets chips for specific markets -- earlier this year, price cuts are occurring on a monthly basis, an Intel spokesman said. In other words, prices for chips in different markets are reduced at varying times, or staggered over the course of the year. This, in general, results in one chip line being reduced one month and another the following month. "Before it was a monolithic market segment...[before] we cut prices every three months...but now price changes happen at different times," he said. Intel cuts processor prices Processor Aug. 98 Price Sept. 98 price % Decrease 400-MHz Pentium II $589 $482 18% 350-MHz PII $423 $299 29% 333-MHz PII $316 $234 26% 300-MHz Celeron $112 $95 15% 266-MHz Mobile PII $444 $391 12% 233-MHz Mobile PII $262 $209 20% 266-MHz Mobile Pentium $241 $159 34% 233-MHz Mobile Pentium $134 $95 29% Source: Intel Some of the steepest price cuts announced come in the meatiest part of Intel's chip lineup. The 400-MHz Pentium II drops from $589 to $482, an 18 percent price decline. The 350-MHz chip was slashed 29 percent from $423 to $299. Both the 350 and 400 chips are now used in high-volume products. Compaq Computer ( compaq.com ), for example, uses the 350-MHz chip in its Compaq Presario 5170 which sells for $1,599 with a 10GB hard drive and 128MB of memory. Also, IBM <http://www.ibm.com>, via resellers, offers an Aptiva consumer model E5D with a 400-MHz chip and an 8GB hard drive and 64MB of memory for $1,448 currently. But new chip pricing could help to drive prices on systems like this down. Prices for the Pentium II for notebook PCs, meanwhile, were also cut. The 266-MHz version was discounted to $391 from $444. This chip is now appearing in many midrange and higher-end notebook PCs. The Celeron processor, also based on the Pentium II architecture, stayed the same, except for the older, slower 300-MHz version which was cut from $112 to $95. The improved, faster 300A and 333 Celeron versions did not change in price. The venerable Pentium MMX chips, still found in notebook PCs, were also slashed. The 266-MHz version fell from $241 to $159, a drop of 34 percent. All in all, the price cuts indicates that pricing is getting increasingly aggressive.