21.   Technology shares slumped yesterday, dragging down equities, amid concern demand for semiconductors is declining as companies produce more chips.

22.   The actual costs of producing chips in the new process are lower than expected, Intel said.

23.   The clone makers have fallen behind, unable to produce the faster Pentium clone chips and unable to produce competing chips in volume.

24.   The company is already producing finished chips on a small pilot manufacturing line in Fishkill, N.Y.

25.   The facility currently produces chips used in video compression, telecommunications and computer graphics.

26.   The custom chips are produced in close alliance with the companies that use them to make things like mobile phones, satellite television receivers and automobiles.

27.   The new TSMC and UMC plants unveiled this month will specialize in producing chips according to designs supplied by others, or what are known as pure foundry services.

28.   The plant, still under construction, is expected to start producing chips in large quantities next year.

29.   The Santa Clara plants produced chips on older, less efficient five-inch and six-inch wafers.