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To: Tim McCormick who wrote (42649)	2/2/1999 10:01:00 AM
From: John Graybill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 53903

"lied"! None of that "allegedly" or "seems" stuff? There's blood in the water if the news folks aren't using their usual fudge words. Looks like the fix is in, at least in the DJII, for today. They've already driven it more or less straight down to within a point of having to put the 50-point trading curbs on, and backed it off very nicely indeed. MU 73 7/8 as I write, a couple of big blocks are scrolling across the CNBC ticker.

To: Tim McCormick who wrote (42649)	2/2/1999 10:44:00 AM
From: DJBEINO	Respond to of 53903

Digital Camera Market to Consume More Than $231 Million of DRAM and Flash Memory by 2002 NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 1999--As digital camera sales increase the amount of memory they consume will also increase. From the small market it is today, flash-based digital film sales will grow rapidly to more than 797 thousand megabytes by 2002. Calculated average growth rate from 1998 to 2002 is expected to be 110%, according to Cahners In-Stat Group. The majority of digital film sales are after-market sales with consumers buying additional digital film at the time of purchase. Cahners In-Stat Group predicts the vast majority of the digital film will be flash memory based. Currently, the two main competing form factors are Compact Flash and Smart Media. Features such as burst mode and image sensor direct to final memory will increase the amount of digital film used per camera. As picture complexity increases, so will the amount of digital film sold per camera. The cost per megabit for flash integrated circuits (IC) is falling rapidly and the growth of flash IC dollar sales will not be a smooth growth curve as is the case with the digital film growth. According to Cahners In-Stat Group, competition for flash-based digital film comes from two sources: floppy disks and the future possibility of small form factor hard disk drive. However, floppy disks do not hold enough data to store high quality pictures and it is expected that this type of digital film will lose market share in the near future. The more expensive hard disk drives consume more power than flash and Cahners In-Stat Group believes their success will be limited in the affordable digital camera market. Digital Film: Memory Applications for Digital Cameras, is a comprehensive report that examines the market for digital cameras, including DRAM, buffer memory and digital film through 2002. Market share data in both units and dollars is provided, including a five-year forecast. Profiles of digital camera models are also given. Richard Kohn is a senior analyst for the Semiconductor Service and authored the report. Cahners In-Stat Group is a high-technology market research firm covering the consumer and convergence, networking, wireless, telecommunications, Internet and semiconductor markets. Headquartered in Newton, offices are also located in Scottsdale, Ariz. and San Jose, Calif. Cahners In-Stat Group is part of Cahners Business Information, the largest publisher of specialized business publications in the United States, and a division of Reed Elsevier. Visit Cahners In-Stat Group online at cahnersinstat.com. biz.yahoo.com