31.   Weak markets for South Korean exports ranging from steel to autos to computer memory chips made it difficult for the financially leveraged conglomerates to service debts.

32.   Whittington suggested prices for computer memory chips are starting to fall, triggering a selloff in semiconductor and networking stocks.

33.   Dell Computer Corp. said a higher-than-expected surge in the price of computer memory chips will likely hurt its third-quarter earnings.

34.   Dell Computer Corp. warned Monday that a higher-than-expected jump in the price of computer memory chips will likely affect its third-quarter earnings.

35.   Hitachi blamed deterioration in prices for computer memory chips, falling demand for consumer electronics and personal computers and increased restructuring costs.

36.   Hitachi blamed its current woes on a deterioration in prices for computer memory chips, falling demand for consumer electronics and personal computers and increased restructuring costs.

37.   Hitachi blamed its woes on a deterioration in prices for computer memory chips, falling demand for consumer electronics and personal computers and increased restructuring costs.

38.   Hyundai Electronics focused on making computer memory chips.

39.   Hyundai Electronics Co. temporarily stopped making computer memory chips Wednesday to help ease a global supply glut and shore up falling chip prices.

40.   Information divulged by the South Korean engineers was delivered to Nanya Technology Corp., a Taiwanese firm specializing in computer memory chips and liquid crystal displays, they said.