The industries of both countries face higher costs for imported chip-making equipment, which comes mostly from Japan and represents the lion's share of a chip maker's costs.

ECONOMIST: Semiconductors

The Street continues to back away from chip stocks in the face of slack end-market demand for PCs and other goods and signs of bloated inventories.

FORBES: Chips: RBC Wary; Cuts Ratings On INTC, NVDA, TXN, ADI

Fish Face may look like a fish and chip shop, but the menu includes fish curries, sushi, and the intriguing Hiramasa kingfish with beetroot relish and pancetta.

BBC: Mini guide to Sydney, Australia

Peterborough went close with a Charlie Lee chip that went wide, but West Brom comfortably held on and will face Burnley at home in the next round.

BBC: Peterborough 0-2 West Brom

The hundreds of photovoltaic chips gathering energy at the center will be cooled by the same sort of microchannel water cooling that kept Aquasar from frying, letting each chip safely concentrate 2, 000 times the solar energy it would normally face.

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Montano threatened again moments later, attempting to chip Forster from the inside-right channel, but the effort sailed across the face of goal and was eventually cleared.

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Evercore Partners analyst Patrick Wang this morning offered some cautionary comments on PC-related chip stocks, cutting his ratings on AMD and Nvidia and reducing estimates on Intel in the face of ongoing evidence of weak PC demand.

FORBES: AMD, Nvidia, Intel: Evercore Turns Wary As PC Sales Weaken