Applied Materials, Other Semiconductor And Tech Stocks Focus Of Informed Investors Radio Today.SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 1999-- As mighty Applied Materials (Nasdaq:AMAT AMAT Applied Materials (stock symbol) AMAT Average Memory Access Time AMAT Automatic Message Accounting Transmitter AMAT Anti-Materiel (bomb or mine) AMAT Ageing Management Assessment Team ) goes, so goes the rocking and rolling Rocking and rolling (also rock and roll; see Rock and roll (disambiguation)) is a name for cueing techniques used in sound recording and video recording, particularly in analog recordings. semiconductor capital equipment industry. Investors who follow Applied and other semiconductor stocks, often harbingers of what's ahead for the whole tech sector, should not miss today's Informed Investors Radio show. Visit www.informedinvestors.com at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time (11 a.m. Pacific time) to listen to the one-hour program live over the Internet. It is also archived for 45 days. Special guests include Carl Johnson, co-founder and Director of INFRASTRUCTURE (www.infras.com), and Peter Trapp, portfolio manager of the highly successful Needham Growth Fund (Nasdaq:NEEGX). Investors with questions for the guests should email program co-host Tim Quast at tim@informedinvestors.com throughout the show. Johnson will be reporting live from the 27th Annual SG Cowen Fall Technology Stocks Forum in Boston. He will comment on the most significant developments at the big institutional conference that concludes today. Johnson and partner Ron Leckie are respected analysts who combine Wall Street and industry experience to deliver bleeding-edge insights on the semiconductor and capital equipment sectors. INFRASTRUCTURE's mid-week newsletter, "Industry Notes," is the recognized leader in bringing technology, market and investment-oriented analysis on the semiconductor, semiconductor capital equipment, flat panel display A thin display screen for computer and TV usage. The first flat panels appeared on laptop computers in the mid-1980s, and the LCD technology became the standard. Stand-alone LCD screens became available for desktop computers in the mid-1990s and exceeded sales of CRTs for the first time and related industries. Bellwether INFRASTRUCTURE stocks include: ASM Lithography (Nasdaq:ASMLF); Cymer (Nasdaq:CYMI); Dupont Photomask (Nasdaq:DPMI (DOS Protected Mode Interface) A Microsoft programming interface that allowed a DOS-extended program to run cooperatively under Windows 3.x. It was not compatible with VCPI, the first DOS extender standard. ); KLA-Tencor (Nasdaq:KLAC); Novellus Systems (Nasdaq:NVLS NVLS Novellus Systems (stock symbol) ); PRI PRI: see Institutional Revolutionary party. (Primary Rate Interface) An ISDN service that provides 23 64 Kbps B (Bearer) channels and one 64 Kbps D (Data) channel (23B+D), which is equivalent to the 24 channels of a T1 line. Automation (Nasdaq:PRIA); and Teradyne (Nyse:TER). Trapp's Needham Growth Fund (www.needhamco.com) has been a sterling performer since its inception on Jan. 1, 1996. Annualized annualized Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared. compound return from inception through June 30, 1999 was nearly 32%. For 1999 through June, the return was 35.3% and the second quarter exceeded 21%. Needham & Co., the parent company, is a leader in semiconductor research and Trapp's comments will give investors fresh view on the sector and the stocks in it. In addition to its weekly radio show, Informed Investors is the leading producer of industry-specific investment conferences for the retail investment community. Details are at www.informedinvestors.com. |
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