1.   I go out and buy chips.

2.   Another Silicon Valley stalwart, Intel, reported nearly flat earnings amid a slump by major personal computer makers that buy Intel chips.

3.   As part of Operation Eastside, Sergeant Chater said the police had identified several companies which had bought stolen chips but would not admit they knew they were stolen.

4.   After all, the personal computer business seemed to belong increasingly to the big PC makers, buying chips by the boatful and cutting costs with ruthless efficiency.

5.   But since most PC makers must buy Intel chips, the company can maintain high prices, raising its revenue.

6.   But you can also buy Overdrive chips that replace slow Pentiums.

7.   Digital has said it has contracts to buy chips after that.

8.   FTC investigators have questioned executives at Intel, and at the chip firms that compete with it and the computer makers that buy its chips.

9.   He even discounted the damage that Digital would suffer if it could no longer buy chips from Intel.

10.   Hughes-supported researchers can pay without blanching at the high costs of maintaining germ-free mouse colonies or buying Affymetrix chips for analyzing gene expression.