1.   At each stop, he asks government leaders for their help in coming up with ways to train and recruit more chip designers.

2.   But it plans to continue to hire workers, principally chip designers, who have key technical skills.

3.   Chip designers also try to maximize the work chips can do by packing each chip with more transistors.

4.   Chip designer Music Semiconductors Corp. was one of the bright spots in the market.

5.   Consider Mountain View, Calif., chip designer Synopsys.

6.   For example, one challenge that chip designers face is synchronizing the switching of arrays of transistors with a single clock frequency.

7.   Fromherz confessed later that he had harbored strong doubts about whether the chip designers would be interested in his work.

8.   Her pal, Keith Rampmeier, a chip designer from Costa Mesa, Calif., also likes the MEGs.

9.   IBM would use the technology for its own chip-making operations or sell it as a tool kit for other chip designers.

10.   In reality, chip designers have many restrictions that prevent them from using all the new transistors.