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To: greg s who wrote (65009)	9/17/1998 5:57:00 PM
From: stak	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

greg, >>The Virginia fab was designed to be a memory mfg. facility (not logic, as in PowerPC). It has had an arduous on-again, off-again history.<< Thanks for pointing out that it's not the PowerPC chip that is being shelved at that plant. Memory is definitely a big question mark going forward. As you mention, it would be great for Virginia if Motorola could switch to production of another product. The AP release said :>>An expanded project at the West Creek site was revived in December and groundbreaking on the plant was to have been held next year. The plant was to have made high-performance chips for pagers and handheld computers and employ as many as 5,000 people.<< Do you feel that the handheld computer market is so bad going forward as to warrant shelving this plant? I thought that the handheld market was just about to take off with products like Pagenet's Two-Way. This device is shown on the 3rd page of the Sept. 21 1998 Business Week issue. Two-Way can send and receive e-mail from a small wallet size device. Is StrongARM breathing on this decision?!?