Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : 3DFX -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chip Anderson who wrote (8402)	10/18/1998 1:16:00 AM
From: Simon Cardinale	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

Did we ever pin down how bad the loss actually was? The operational loss of -0.55 included the inventory reserve charge, didn't it? I'd like to know what they made before _all_ one time charges. There were 100k V1.5 chipsets according to the MF synopsis of the CC. What's that make the inventory reserve charge? $1.5M? 0.10/share? How is this consistent with this quote from the MF synopsis "Apart from the inventory reserve charge, the shortfall in operating earnings was consistent with expectations" (of -0.07 I guess...) Would it have been bad manners for the analysts to ask for a monetary value for the write-down? Simon