11.   And with clever new applications of silicon chips coming out every day, it is easy to become, well, exuberant about the future.

12.   Another new product that is also selling well is the digital answering machine, which uses a small silicon chip instead of a tape to store messages.

13.   As a somewhat oversimplified example, an accelerometer can be made by etching a structure resembling a tiny diving board on a silicon chip.

14.   As a result, Aibos are seen by their owners as much more than a collection of silicon chips and motors.

15.   As man has progressed from the wheel to steam to silicon chips, each generation has believed its technological revolution would change the world and perfect it.

16.   Before long, silicon chips will decide how you should behave on the road, or whether you should be on the road at all.

17.   Both companies sell software used to design, test and make silicon chips.

18.   Both Intel and Texas Instruments Inc. plan to introduce souped-up networking products using custom-designed silicon chips.

19.   A bit is stored as a pile of electrons in a minuscule corner of a silicon chip.

20.   A computer is just a box of silicon chips, resistors and circuit boards.