71.   Still, while some expect memory chip prices to stabilize this summer, the market remains vulnerable to another drop.

72.   Taiwan stocks declined, led by high-tech companies such as United Microelectronics Corp., amid concern computer memory chip prices are falling.

73.   TAIWAN stocks fell for the second day amid concern semiconductor makers will be hurt by slowing demand for computer chips and declining chip prices.

74.   Suzuki declined to say how much he thinks memory chip prices will fall this year.

75.   Texas Instruments sees memory chip prices and global chip sales rebounding, most of all for its digital signal processors.

76.   Texas Instruments said the weakness in memory chip prices would be temporary.

77.   Stocks of Japanese semiconductor makers slumped for the second day amid concern that falling chip prices and demand will hurt profits.

78.   That increased demand may help offset lower memory chips prices, which have fallen steadily since mid-March.

79.   That is because the easing of the memory chip shortage and decline in memory chip prices reduced Japanese imports of those chips, mainly from South Korea.

80.   TAIWAN stocks staged their biggest rally in a week as semiconductor companies rose on a report that chip prices will rebound as companies pare production.