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Chip prices doubling

    10-Nov-92 19:37:48
Fm: William Cage 70642,320
To: Michael Barker 70323,1150
I read recently that the US was putting a 10% to 20% tarif on chips produced in Korea. The verdict was still out whether the Korean suppliers would eat the cost or pass them on, my guess is the latter. Even though this appears limited to Korea (from the article that I read) and not a huge increase you can bet that all chip suppliers will increase their prices and blame it on this occurrance (remember how the oil companies work 🙁 Bill