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Siemens. Our operating income for this region declined, and we posted an operating loss of ¥10.4 billion ($98 mil- lion). 

## The Americas 

Lower information systems sales by Amdahl and yen appreciation negatively affected sales in this region, but boosted by the strong performance of our transmission business, sales in the Americas rose 2.1%, to ¥585.4 billion ($5,523 million). Increased sales and business restructuring, together with a smaller loss by our U.S. semiconductor plant, resulted in a ¥5.7 billion operating-level improve- ment, and we recorded an operating loss of ¥13.2 billion ($125 million) in this region. 

## Other 

Sales in this geographic segment, which includes Asian markets outside Japan, increased 0.6%, to ¥251.0 billion ($2,368 million). Operating income soared 41.8%, to ¥19.3 billion ($182 million). 

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## Capital Expenditure 

Responding to increased demand for semiconductors and focusing our investments in growth areas, we expanded capital expenditure in fiscal 1999 by 12.8%, or ¥36.9 bil- lion to ¥325.7 billion ($3,072 million). By business segment, outlays for services and software totaled ¥64.7 billion ($610 million), ¥89.2 billion ($841 million) for infor- mation processing, ¥35.5 billion ($334 million) for telecommunications, ¥113.6 billion ($1,071 million) for electronic devices, of which ¥87.9 billion ($829 million) was invested in semiconductors, and ¥9.8 billion ($92 mil- lion) in other operations. 

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* Nonallocable capital expenditure for shared R&D and parent company manage- ment division 

Major capital expenditure included: 

* Services and software — Outsourcing facilities for the network services business, server expansion and infra- structure related to the consolidation of NiftyServe and InfoWeb into @nifty 

* Information processing — Magnetic disk drive develop- ment and manufacturing facilities, printed circuit board production facilities, UNIX systems R&D facilities 

## Capital Expenditure 

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## Total Assets 

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