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To: Mark Peterson CPA who wrote (114825)	4/7/1999 6:25:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 176387

Notebook prices to rise.Well so much for sub-zero portables. Mark: Interesting development in the the Notebook segment,as you know for Dell notebook is a major thrust area for the company. LCD shortfall pushes up prices By Brooke Crothers Staff Writer, CNET News.com April 7, 1999, 8:15 a.m. PT Makers of liquid crystal displays continue to raise prices, a move that is expected ultimately to hike prices on personal computers and other devices. A number of Japanese manufacturers including Sharp, NEC, and Toshiba are pushing up liquid crystal display (LCD) prices in the face of a supply shortfall. This is a dramatic reversal of fortunes: LCD makers over the last few years have been in the doldrums and racked by losses because of a seemingly endless glut of displays. This trend in price hikes was apparent this week when Matsushita Electric Industrial, a relatively small LCD maker, said it intends to raise prices of active-matrix screens by about 10 percent according to a report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun; a major Japanese business daily.........> Also, the demand for notebook PC screens continues unabated, at growth rates of about 14 percent. The 1998, 13.4 million unit market is projected to increase to near 16 million in 1999, DisplaySearch said..................(Continued) news.com