11.   The chip industry wants more computerized control of chip factories to improve production and minimize production faults.

12.   The company blamed effects of earthquakes in Taiwan that damaged chip factories in late September.

13.   The company provided no details on which chip factories it will close or where the jobs will be cut.

14.   The company plans to expand the state-of-the-art memory chip factory under construction in Dresden to add logic circuits to the lineup.

15.   The expertise the company has developed in planning, building and managing chip factories, he said, should translate well.

16.   Those assets include the eight chip factories that it continues to operate worldwide, including two in Austin.

17.   U.S.-made destroyers cannot prevent Taiwanese companies from building chip factories outside Shanghai.

18.   When the Japanese stopped building new chip factories, the South Koreans stepped in.

19.   Chip factories bear a high cost because of the sophisticated production equipment necessary.

20.   On Thursday, Chang said that TSMC also plans to open chip factories, or fabs, in China and other unidentified countries.