41.   Benchmarq makes non-volatile SRAM memory chips, or NVSRAMs, used by networking equipment makers and other technology manufacturers.

42.   Because a computer uses the data in its main memory chips millions of times every second, the computer must constantly pause to decompress the data before processing.

43.   Between that and the decline in prices for memory chips, Texas Instruments is regarded as a weak buy or a hold by most analysts.

44.   Boise, Idaho-based Micron said that the price of its memory chips will be pushed lower in coming months.

45.   Bolstered by strong sales of memory chips and some favorable year-end accounting, Advanced Micro Devices reported earnings yesterday that bested Wall Street expectations.

46.   Both Hitachi Ltd. and NEC Corp. are scheduled to announce separately prototypes of billion-bit memory chips at a semiconductor industry conference in San Francisco this week.

47.   Boise, Idaho-based Micron is one of the few U.S. makers of dynamic random access memory chips.

48.   A bare board has empty sockets for the processor chip and memory chips.

49.   A merger between Hynix and Micron could result in the creation of a company that would overtake Samsung Electronics in production of memory chips.

50.   A major maker of memory chips for personal computers, Micron said it had been hard hit in recent quarters by Asian manufacturers that sell chips below cost.