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To: 16yearcycle who wrote (24779)	10/1/1998 12:39:00 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 70976

semibiznews.com Excerpt:In fact, the budget slashing has accelerated to a point where people are now beginning to worry about severe shortages in chip-making capacity developing around the turn of the century. "I've never seen such a dearth of new fab starts," commented analyst George Burns of Strategic Marketing Associates in Santa Cruz, Calif. "The value of new fab starts this year will be less than $15 billion -- half of the $30 billion in new starts two years ago."