1.   But a new generation of programmable chips, faster and used in place of custom chips, could get around that problem.

2.   But IBM does help other companies design and manufacture custom chips.

3.   But Mann predicts that within a year it will run on a custom chip that can be implanted in the eyetap glasses.

4.   Custom chip design is a hot business for firms like Milpitas-based LSI Logic Corp. and San Jose-based VLSI Technology.

5.   His company, Cray Research, designed custom chips called vector processors, which sold mostly to the U.S. government.

6.   In addition to making custom chips, IBM plans to offer some basic chips, such as one modeled after a DSP chip line offered by Texas Instruments.

7.   Sony has chosen LSI Logic, a Silicon Valley maker of custom chips.

8.   The custom chips are produced in close alliance with the companies that use them to make things like mobile phones, satellite television receivers and automobiles.

9.   The Dirty Dozen had no time to design custom chips and software from the ground up.

10.   The engineers will design custom chips for electronics manufacturers.