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Technology Stocks : Flextronics International (FLEX) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kolo55 who wrote (1065)	3/7/1999 8:49:00 PM
From: Marc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1422

Not sure about your valuation, but maybe you are right: TTM Price TTM Price Qtrly Market TTM To Sales To Cash Price NAME Capitalization Sales $ Per Share Flow P/S To Book Celestica, Inc. 1 784M 3 249M 0.43 42.4 2.45 Flextronics 1 559M 1 629M 1 45.57 6.32 Hadco 429M 864M 0.49 NM 2.22 Jabil 2435M 1 405M 1.79 25.91 9.09 Sanmina 2 967M 823M 3.3 31.9 6.23 SCI Systems 1 861M 6 583M 0.34 9.07 2.28 Solectron 10 632M 6 097M 1.87 32.5 8.35

To: kolo55 who wrote (1065)	3/8/1999 1:19:00 AM
From: patroller	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1422

Flextronics extends PIC program -- Opens RF design center in San Jose to augment growing roster of product-development facilities Darrell Dunn Flextronics International Ltd. continues to expand its Product Introduction Center (PIC) program, most recently by adding an RF design center in San Jose. The CEM began its PIC program in 1997 with the establishment of centers at its headquarters in San Jose, as well as in Westford, Mass. The following year, Flextronics added PICs in Niwot, Colo.; Dallas; Althofen, Austria; Monza, Italy; and Stockholm and Karlskrona, Sweden. The PICs are intended to help customers in the design stage reduce product-development cycles and time-to-market. With the exception of the centers in Colorado and Italy, Flextronics' PICs provide board-level prototyping production services. The PICs in Colorado and Italy, which both specialize in mechanical design, provide prototype production of metal and plastic enclosures. "What's driving the PIC program is our desire to offer product-development services," said Nicholas Brathwaite, Flextronics' vice president of advanced technology and engineering services. "In the early stages of development, engineers want to be able to drive over and watch their prototypes being developed and work closely with our design teams," Brathwaite said. Most of the existing PICs have employee teams and services dedicated to certain product needs integral to the geographic location and specific customers in that locale. The San Jose center already had significant ongoing efforts in RF-product manufacturing prior to the opening of the new RF Design Center in February. That center has dedicated engineers working to design, develop, and characterize RF and microwave components, circuits, and systems. By working early in product-development stages, the RF engineers can help customers reduce total product cost and improve the design for manufacturability, Brathwaite said. Yongnan Xuan, director of RF engineering and design for Flextronics, has been named manager of the RF Design Center. "We foresee a significant increase in demand for RF products over the next few years," Brathwaite said. "The past year, we have added a number of high-profile, high-technology companies who have required RF design and development expertise, and we plan to continue to expand our RF engineering services to meet the growing demands of our customers." The PIC in Karlskrona, Sweden, has extensive RF engineering capabilities targeted at RF test development products, he added. Brathwaite said he anticipates that Flextronics will add more PICs this year. "There are some areas we're looking at, but we haven't made any decisions," he said. "I think important locations will be along the Eastern [U.S.] seaboard, in Southern California, and in the Midwest, as well as in Germany and the U.K. in Europe." Copyright ® 1999 CMP Media Inc.

To: kolo55 who wrote (1065)	3/8/1999 10:13:00 AM
From: rich evans	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1422

Nice timing on FLEX purchase. Bloomberg said FLEX was upgraded today plus the Copper Mountain Deal and the stock is responding. Maybe the analyst read your post. Anyway I agree that it is time for another positive move in the sector. I will be exercising my calls in Diig I decided instead of closing them. Rich