1.   Chip makers want to shrink their chips to meet the demand for faster electronic devices and computers.

2.   Already this year, Bay Area chip makers Intel, National Semiconductor and Cypress Semiconductor and chip equipment manufacturer Lam Research have announced significant job reductions.

3.   AMD Inc., another chip maker with Austin operations, is to announce its results today after the market closes.

4.   Amelio had been CEO of National Semiconductor Corp., a Santa Clara chip maker.

5.   Analysts said chip makers are increasingly using plastic parts instead of ceramic.

6.   And Hitachi Ltd., another mainframe and computer memory chip maker, may announce it will make laptops shortly, Brown said.

7.   Anyway, there are actually other PC chip makers, like Cyrix, out there.

8.   API licenses HyperTransport technology to a number of chip makers.

9.   As companies rely less on central mainframe computers and more on personal computers, chip makers have seen unbridled demand for memory chips.

10.   As a result, many chip makers strictly limit what engineers can put on a chip.