11.   However, Intel will not design the chips itself.

12.   In addition, more than a dozen satellite design centers and start-up companies are designing chips in the area.

13.   Intel is designing chips that will compete directly against Alpha in the high-end market.

14.   Its engineers are experienced in designing the chips.

15.   It takes the Affymetrix programmer, Michael Mittmann, half a day to design a chip.

16.   LSI said at the time that it had customers designing specialty chips that use the technology.

17.   Mentor primarily sells software that typically runs on work stations from Sun Microsystems Inc. or Hewlett-Packard Co., whose engineers use it to design new chips.

18.   Sun of Mountain View designs chips for its own workstations and computer servers, as well as for devices like digital cameras.

19.   The chip was designed in Austin, where AMD and Intel have top design teams.

20.   The company also designs the chip that control disk drives, modems and telecommunication devices.