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

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.

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.

Companies have to bring down their 2003 numbers. They're still too high.

That always bothers me. That was one of the major challenges, to change the culture (of the team). . . . I do think you're going to get that type of thing once in a while.

It was critical to change the culture of this facility, and active steps were taken in August to significantly improve conditions.