101.   For decades, electronics designers have struggled to tailor the latest concoction in silicon chips and integrated circuits to the power limitations of the lowly battery.

102.   For five years now, every credit card in France has carried a silicon chip.

103.   No, seriously, delicate silicon chips and boards lie inside your computer case.

104.   Silicon chips form the essence of every computer, from microprocessors that perform logic functions on data to the memory modules that store the information.

105.   That business makes silicon chips and optoelectronic components such as lasers used to build the telephone, wireless and Internet communications systems Lucent sells.

106.   The circuit, built on a silicon chip the size of a fingernail, is far from the thinking machines of science fiction.

107.   The operations being spun off as Agere manufacture silicon chips and optical components such as lasers.

108.   The new gel would not do away with silicon chips or transistors but would surround the wires that link them.

109.   The partnership plans to design a new technique for etching ever-tinier patterns in silicon chips, enabling more transistors to be crammed into each microprocessor.

110.   The unit makes silicon chips and optoelectronic components such as lasers used to build the telephone, wireless and Internet communications systems that Lucent sells.