1.   Also this month, Intel warned that microprocessor sales were weakening, sending chip stocks reeling.

2.   But some market observers are starting to worry about oversupply, especially with chip stocks soaring one day and short-circuiting the next.

3.   Chip stocks fell.

4.   Chip stocks are soaring as the tiny microprocessors make their way into every day objects, including hockey pucks and cat-tracking devices.

5.   Chip stocks fell yesterday after an analyst at the research arm of the influential Nomura Securities Co. cut his outlook on earnings at the companies.

6.   Chip stocks rallied on a report issued by the Semiconductor Industry Association after the close of trading Wednesday.

7.   Chip company stocks may have been hammered on Wednesday, but the sell-off is anything but indicative of the state of the semiconductor industry.

8.   Chip stocks slid on concern that summer sales will be weak, and that will hurt third-quarter earnings.

9.   Chip stocks, widely regarded as a bellwether sector for technology, were among the stocks hit hardest by the tech sell-off.

10.   Chip-industry analysts agree that they have hit bottom now, but they do not agree on when to start buying chip stocks again.