11) On acquisitions: This is a priority with the company now, and they have been in discussion with several companies. In fact one Billion$ company with whom they had talks with, which had reached an impass on which company was worth more dollars, recently had called back for restart of the merger talks...

Is this the company that has 200 patents? I would like to know if anyone knows more about this deal? This company was mentioned in the proxy package as well. This deal/company sounds very interesting.

A big Thanks to all that reported from ASM.

glta

Tom