1.   Already, Frito-Lay owned the rest of the snack chip business, with products like Doritos and Tostitos sold around the globe.

2.   And despite its prolonged, demoralizing slump in the chip business, Motorola still has talented people left to help turn things around.

3.   As the chip business grew, however, the forest shrank.

4.   Austin, where the chip business is headquartered, has felt the sting of the layoffs.

5.   Barrett said he expects to see both the communications chip business and the data services business becoming multibillion-dollar industries within the next few years.

6.   A top manager locally said the spinoff will help the chip business.

7.   By selling Fairchild he moved the company out of the commodity chip business.

8.   Cirrus dropped several personal computer-related businesses, including a graphics chip operation and a modem chip business.

9.   Does the current expansion in the chip business mean chip makers will have too much capacity for their own good in the near future?

10.   Falling prices in its portable phone and chip businesses played a big part in its profit shortfall.