1.   The heating can also cause the resist to form volatile materials, which contaminate the ultra-clean environment of the chip factory.

2.   American-made destroyers cannot prevent companies in Taiwan from building chip factories outside Shanghai.

3.   Because Intel can quickly fine-tune manufacturing at its new, highly automated chip factories, selected price cuts that seem aggressive are likely to bolster profits.

4.   Chang said that the company would delay the construction of two chip factories, known as fabs, in southern Taiwan.

5.   Chip factories in Taiwan, South Korea and elsewhere are working full throttle to keep up with demand.

6.   He also said that China, even with its platoons of engineers, lacked the skilled labor to build and run advanced chip factories.

7.   Intel confirmed yesterday it will announce the location of a major new chip factory within a month.

8.   It has delayed the planned expansion of its chip factory in Austin, Texas, and is reportedly seeking a hefty capital infusion from the Intel Corp.

9.   Not content with just a chip factory, Charn began assembling an empire.

10.   On one level, the company has been helping to design classes at local community colleges that prepare students for jobs as technicians at the chip factories.