41.   Representatives for the U.S. and Japanese chip industries were unable to reach a consensus on the issue in talks held last weekend in Vancouver.

42.   Right now, the chip industry is benefiting from strong demand for personal computers, which include a number of different kinds of chips.

43.   Sales by companies that make semiconductor equipment and products for the Japanese chip industry have been hard hit.

44.   Seiferth said the new jobs have some insulation from the fluctuations in the chip industry because they are used in a variety of products.

45.   Semiconductor equipment makers Nikon Corp. and Ibiden Co. rose after record profits at U.S.-based Intel Corp. stoked hopes of a pick up in the chip industry.

46.   Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International, the trade group representing the chip equipment industry, was buoyant in a conference at Pebble Beach this week.

47.   Semiconductor-related companies may revise down their capital spending plans because of the continuing slump in the chip industry, the Bank of Japan said.

48.   Some analysts give Hardinger credit for guiding the company through its transition to a public company and leaving it positioned for recent recovery in the chip industry.

49.   Some analysts say the chip industry has reached bottom and is now starting a recovery.

50.   The agreement reveals some of the unusual nature of the chip industry.