31.   Fabrication is a delicate process, requiring chip companies to install special equipment and ultra-pure gases to eliminate contamination of the chips.

32.   For a third quarter in a row, the cellular phone and chip company reported profit that failed to meet or exceed expectations.

33.   For the third quarter in a row, the cellular phone and chip company reported profit that failed to meet or exceed expectations.

34.   Frito-Lay said it faces plenty of competition from such chip companies as Mission and Poore Bros.

35.   He takes over the chip company at a crucial time, as the industry crawls out of its worst slump ever.

36.   In Hong Kong, small retail traders were chasing the so-called red chip companies, and were playing them with tremendous leverage.

37.   Intergraph sued Intel in November, charging that the giant chip company used its market clout to bully it in a patent dispute.

38.   It gives PC companies, chip companies and makers of disk drives and other components a renewable market that goes ga-ga over every technological breakthrough.

39.   It was the second chip company to provide an unanticipated bit of good news about earnings, a possible sign of a rebound in the chip industry.

40.   Macronix is the latest in a spate of chips companies to reveal expansion projects to meet rising demand worldwide.