21.   For stories about Japanese semiconductor companies, type TNI JAPAN SEM Go.

22.   For the most part, those bets have paid off, since technology stocks, particularly of the semiconductor companies, have soared in the last year.

23.   He added that many investors now believe that the large inventories that had been held by many semiconductor companies have been depleted.

24.   His Newark, Del., semiconductor materials company, Rodel Inc., just bought Solution Technology Inc. of North Carolina.

25.   In addition, semiconductor packaging companies fell.

26.   In Europe, other semiconductor companies gained.

27.   In June the HomePlug group said it would build its standard around technology developed by Intellon, an Ocala, Fla., semiconductor design company.

28.   In overseas trading Friday, U.S. stocks tumbled for a second day as concern spread that economic turmoil in Asia will hurt semiconductor companies.

29.   In technology, the stock I like is Sipex, an analog semiconductor company.

30.   In rotating money into computer-related stocks, investors stuck to semiconductor companies and shunned personal computer makers, which had soared this year.