101.   Wholesale memory chip prices have leveled off recently.

102.   With the chip price down, PC makers are packing more memory into each machine.

103.   With extra inventory cleared out, chip prices have stabilized and chipmakers are ramping up to fill new orders.

104.   Yet even in the high-tech industry, declines in memory chip prices took their toll on Taiwan businesses.

105.   Plunging chip prices pushed competitors like Micron Technology, Hynix and Infineon into the red.

106.   A sharp drop in memory chip prices has caused major losses in the semiconductor business, one of four troubled Siemens divisions, company chairman Heinrich von Pierer said.

107.   But chip prices have been rising this year.

108.   But that goal became impossible when chip prices dropped sharply.

109.   Chip prices have fallen since the start of the year, and South Korean makers are cutting production this summer.

110.   Chip prices have also been rising this year.