1.   The company blamed weak sales and falling chip prices for its microprocessors.

2.   Analysts expressed concern Thursday that chip prices could be driven back down again if Hynix and other manufacturers overreact by ramping up production too quickly.

3.   As chip prices drop, it will start appearing in PCs for the home market.

4.   As long as inventories remain bloated, as they have since December, chip prices will remain weak, they say.

5.   As head of the embattled semiconductor business, one that has been roiled worldwide by falling chip prices, Sasaki won praise for containing a potential disaster.

6.   AUSTiN, Texas - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned investors Thursday that its second quarter earnings will plunge as falling chip prices eroded its profitability.

7.   Acer Inc. expects profit growth to slow this year because of a drop in chip prices and rising competition in the international PC market, a senior executive said.

8.   But chip prices in the fiercely competitive cell phone industry are low.

9.   But not with chip prices evidently falling faster than expected.

10.   But tempering these plummeting prices will be the fact that memory chip prices will bottom out, and possibly go up, as demand matches and then exceeds supply.