31.   NEC and Fujitsu and their Korean and Taiwanese competitors have stepped up investment in chip plants in the last year to meet burgeoning demand.

32.   Other cost-cutting measures include halting construction of a chip plant in Virginia and folding the operations of one division into others.

33.   Samsung joins Toshiba and other industry giants in establishing U.S. chip plants.

34.   Semiconductor equipment companies also fell amid concern that falling prices for memory chips will delay building new chip plants, which require the latest equipment.

35.   The joint venture marks the second time this year Alliance bought into a chip plant to guarantee capacity.

36.   The Nihon Keizai newspaper said Fujitsu would postpone plans to expand chip plants in the U.S. and the U.K. because of falling chip prices.

37.   The new project is the third billion-dollar semiconductor chip plant to be announced by UMC since July.

38.   TI-Acer is the second company to announce plans to build a chip plant in Taiwan in the past nine days.

39.   TI-Acer already operates one chip plant in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park in central Taiwan.

40.   Currently, the company is building a memory chip plant in Oregon and expects to complete a semiconductor assembling plant in China this month.