11.   He is considered a father of the tech industry and will likely make news and assess the state of the chip business.

12.   Historically, the chip business has swung between gluts and shortages because when new capacity comes online, it comes in big chunks.

13.   High-tech recruiter Kim Butler of Greywolf Consulting said he expects to see more chip design businesses grow up in Austin.

14.   If the chip business can produce profits in line with other chip makers, the parent company would be less inclined to sell it.

15.   If that timetable is not met, company President Robert Growney said in August that Motorola might sell or spin off the chip business.

16.   In its chip business, stronger sales growth in the industry as a whole will lead Motorola to boost its capital spending for semiconductors this year and next.

17.   In the chip business, semiconductors are built on sheets of silicon.

18.   Instead of a stagnant, Microsoft-like monopoly, the chip business has become a war zone, with higher performance and lower prices as the weapons.

19.   Intel, which dominates the PC chip business, finds itself in the odd position of underdog in the fast-growing business for wireless Internet semiconductors.

20.   It is an established player in the communications chip business with strong ties to customers such as Nortel Networks and Cisco Systems.