1.   A wood chip plant will be closed for six months beginning this next week, they said.

2.   Already, Korean companies are either thinking about or putting planned chip plants on hold.

3.   As evidence of that, they point to a new chip assembly plant outside Porto.

4.   Because DEC produces relatively few Alpha chips, it has been looking for someone to buy all or part of its underutilized chip production plant in Hudson, Mass.

5.   Because the royalties are generated with relatively little added expense -- lawyers cost less than new chip plants -- they have become an important source of cash.

6.   Bergfalk declined to give financial details of the purchase, but he said the chip plant could be in production in nine months to a year.

7.   Both Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Electronics recently announced plans to build billion-dollar semiconductor factories in the United States, their first chip plants outside South Korea.

8.   - The slump in computer technology that has led to layoffs and cutbacks at chip plants in Arizona summons an image of lagging sales of personal computers.

9.   A production cut would crush earnings, in part because companies depreciate the fixed cost of chip plants over just four years.