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Lets get into these results from samsung. What was the offer . Not as impressed as the shareholders are. They seem pretty impressed. I think there is a lot of concern they need to be aware of. First of all, the chip business really fell off a cliff. Operating profit really fell a lot. The other thing is the smartphone business had a good quarter. It was the secondhighest sale on record for that division. Incomecompare operating versus a couple of quarters ago, operating profit was a lot lower. Margins a lot worse than it had been in the past. They said themselves this quarter, the fourth quarter, they would see a deterioration, not only in shipments, but also a have bees. What they ship will be the cheaper phones. Not the flagship stuff they had in the first quarter. The cheaper stuff. Those are the landmines investors need to be worried about as we go into the next. Components are weak and their products are week as well. It definitely is downbeat, a column this morning. You sum up by ....