Wendell understands it would not be a good idea to change this technological culture, but he's learned from the rocky times.

We will see a differentiation between chip companies that are exposed to pure IT spending and those exposed to consumer and analog. IT spending is not going to be a barn-burner.

I don't really see a recovery in the service providers that would be doing the buying of telecom equipment for quite some time. They need to consolidate and address their pricing structure. They might not be healthy until 2004.