61.   On Tuesday, the semiconductor company said it would not rule out any options for the unfinished building, including selling it.

62.   Ohga also said that many Japanese and American semiconductor companies are now working together in strategic alliances, relieving trade tensions.

63.   Olstein is buying some specialized semiconductor companies that have been beaten up, including Cypress Semiconductor, LSI Logic, Atmel, TriQuint Semiconductor and International Rectifier.

64.   One semiconductor company continuing to show financial strength is the French-Italian company SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV.

65.   Other semiconductor companies and their vendors in Arizona have made similar layoffs.

66.   One reason is that most American semiconductor companies, like the Intel Corp. and Texas Instruments Inc., specialize in chips and gain directly from a booming market.

67.   Over different periods, investor euphoria has pushed biotechnology stocks, shares of semiconductor companies and, more recently, Internet stocks, to levels that were not sustainable.

68.   Paul Ray Jr., a top New York headhunter, recalls a recent search for a top executive by a semiconductor company.

69.   Semiconductor companies are offering signing bonuses to electrical engineering graduates as if they were major league ballplayers.

70.   Semiconductor companies agreed to global standards for making bigger silicon wafers, the raw material of computer chips, to help cut production costs.