11.   LSI said at the time that it had customers designing specialty chips that use the technology.

12.   Micron Technology Inc. and LSI Logic Corp. said they will team up to develop and make specialty logic chips that have memory components built into them.

13.   Other makers of similar specialty chips also fell.

14.   Semiconductor stocks fell after Altera warned that orders for specialty chips had slowed in recent months.

15.   Semtech expected a few initial sales by customers interested in a specialty chip, Poe said.

16.   Specialty chips are expected to give Texas Instruments Inc. a lift in the second quarter as well.

17.   The company said declining sales in China would hurt results, fueling concern that the maker of specialty chips is losing business to competitors.

18.   The company shifted its focus to specialty chips and sales declined.

19.   The company shifted its focus specialty chips, but suffered from declining sales.