Qualcomm is also the leader in cell phone chip sets, led by its high-end Snapdragon chip.

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Higher performance product lines will include Ethernet solutions based on 3Com's chip sets, the company said.

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According to AMD, both Acer Laboratories and Via Technologies have committed to developing chip sets for the company's next-generation K7 processor.

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Rather, TRW is working with Nortel Networks to build signal-splitting chip sets fast enough to eliminate bottlenecks on the next generation of long-distance optical telecom networks.

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As Global Positioning System (GPS) chip sets have dropped in price and become more accurate, companies including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are basing their contextual advertising platforms on them.

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Game players tend to be early adapters of any new technology, from specialized high-speed graphics chip sets to surround-sound computer speakers, that promises a more complete immersion in the virtual world.

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It is debt that sets these two chip industries apart.

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But since they are presumably paying two sets of bills, most respondents stopped short of asking them to chip in for rent on top of utility bills.

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