He said it was not necessarily balanced to interview a representative of the BNP and an Asian, when one was a thug with a criminal record who had lost an eye blowing up a chip shop and the other was a magistrate.

BBC: defends 'extremist' interview

Chip investors will want to keep an eye on other stocks in the sector today, as well as chip-heavy ETFs like the Semiconductor HOLDRS (SMH), which counts Texas Instruments and Altera among its top holdings, in addition to Intel (INTC), Applied Material (AMAT) and Analog Devices (ADI).

FORBES: Texas Instruments, Altera Cut Outlooks

Tiger Woods hits his chip shots with the aid of laser eye surgery.

CNN: Why Oscar Pistorius deserves to run

While both CAIROS and GoalRef use magnetic fields around the goal and need to insert a chip in the ball, Hawk-Eye and GoalControl use a 3D imaging system to determine the precise location of the ball.

CNN: Latecomer wins FIFA goal-line tech deal