21.   Intel Corp. last month opened a second Pentium chip manufacturing plant near Dublin.

22.   Junkins also reduced investment risks by entering partnerships with foreign firms, including a Dallas chip plant with Japanese force Hitachi.

23.   Just yesterday, Toshiba said it will postpone construction of a U.S. chip plant because of falling prices.

24.   Korea and other Asian countries are home to a vast number of chip plants.

25.   Late payments, coupled with postponement of some planned Korean chip plants and assembly lines, mean that Advantest sales in Korea will suffer, analysts said.

26.   Meanwhile, Intel has a global network of chip plants to provide an ample supply of Pentiums to every computer maker on the planet.

27.   Micron in February blamed falling prices for its decision to delay indefinitely the completion of its Lehi, Utah, chip plant.

28.   Motorola Inc., for example, is building a chip plant in China as part of an agreement to make computers with China Panda Electronics Group.

29.   NEC already has three chip plants in Asia, producing and assembling chips in Singapore, Malaysia and China.

30.   NEC will close four chip plants for three days after suspending holidays last year.