31.   Still, Kingston Technology says falling memory prices have little effect on its business.

32.   Still, while some expect memory chip prices to stabilize this summer, the market remains vulnerable to another drop.

33.   Taiwan stocks declined, led by high-tech companies such as United Microelectronics Corp., amid concern computer memory chip prices are falling.

34.   Texas Instruments sees memory chip prices and global chip sales rebounding, most of all for its digital signal processors.

35.   Texas Instruments said the weakness in memory chip prices would be temporary.

36.   That increased demand may help offset lower memory chips prices, which have fallen steadily since mid-March.

37.   That is because the easing of the memory chip shortage and decline in memory chip prices reduced Japanese imports of those chips, mainly from South Korea.

38.   Texas Instruments Inc. said it expects memory chip prices to decline this quarter because supply exceeds demand.

39.   The biggest contributor to the expected decline is a steep drop in memory prices in the first few months of this year.

40.   The company blamed the free fall in computer memory chip prices this year for the poor showing.