11.   High-tech and electronics companies are benefitting from surging global demand for computer memory chips and several years of rigorous cost-cutting.

12.   Hideki Wakabayashi, senior analyst at Nomura, cited lowered prices for computer memory chips and for liquid crystal display panels.

13.   Intel is the leading maker of computer processing chips.

14.   Its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings fell more than analysts expected, reflecting a plunge in prices for computer memory chips.

15.   Major semiconductor makers, including Toshiba Corp., Fujitsu Ltd. and NEC Corp., have all recently announced plans to cut production of computer memory chips.

16.   Micron Technology Inc. said it asked the U.S. government to extend a probe into charges that Korean chipmakers sold computer memory chips below prices allowed by U.S. trade law.

17.   Mosel Vitelic Inc., which makes computer memory chips, and other technology companies accounted for most of the decline.

18.   Motorola Inc. is the fourth major maker to halt U.S. production of computer memory chips.

19.   Prices for computer memory chips will extend their decline this year amid abundant supply, according to a survey by Dataquest Inc.

20.   Samsung Electronics Co. and other South Korean semiconductor manufacturers denied speculation they decided to cut production of computer memory chips to boost sagging prices.