21.   Its chip business, while still reporting lower sales, is likely to benefit from an industrywide pickup in demand as early as the second quarter, analysts said.

22.   Its effort to turn around its ailing chip business began to take hold, while sales growth in its cellular and land-mobile divisions picked up.

23.   Just like analysts, investors are having a hard time sorting through the confusing signals about Intel and the chip business.

24.   Just last Friday, Royal Philips Electronics N.V. warned that losses in its chip business could cause the entire company to report a loss for the year.

25.   John T. Santini Jr. has visions of turning MicroChips Inc. into the Intel of the medical chip business.

26.   Meanwhile, companies such as Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp., NEC Corp., Fujitsu Ltd. and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. are major players in the memory chip business.

27.   Motorola has told investors that it has given the chip business a timetable for turning itself around.

28.   Motorola Inc. said Thursday its chip business is likely to remain dismal in the third quarter with sharply declining sales and operating losses.

29.   Motorola in October said it would do more cost-cutting in its chip business, which would hurt fourth-quarter results.

30.   Micron has offset the slide in its chip business by expanding its personal computer manufacturing division, rising to become the ninth-largest PC producer in the country.