At the same time they want to diversify from commodity chips into advanced chips such as processors and chips for mobile telephones.
Healthy snacks such as baked chips, low-fat crackers and fruit snacks are in the vending machines.
Dykes has allowed "comfort items" to be delivered, such as potato chips and toys, the statement said.
Sales of premium products such as Kettle Chips and Walkers Sensations increased between 2002 and 2004, and low-fat crisps sold better too.
However, China's future export growth is likely to come not from existing industries but from higher-value products, such as computer chips and cars.
He was conducting research on nanosensors, which are primarily used for medical treatments or to build other nanoproducts, such as computer chips, she said.
Organic mulches such as wood chips, pine straw or bark have the added benefit of slowly breaking down which adds nutrients to the soil.
Rather than grow and harvest biomass, such as wood chips or algae, and then process that into fuel, Joule has engineered microorganisms to secrete fuel and chemicals, including ethanol and diesel.
That battle has made it easier for the PC makers to join in, which in turn is driving down the prices these firms are prepared to pay for other PC components such as memory chips, modems and disk drives.
Although it doesn't quite have the wow factor of Cornell's invisibility project, the thermal research may prove to be more practical because it also can be used to manage heat and improve cooling in components such as computer chips.
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Japan still produces some exports, such as computer memory chips, that are commodities where price matters immensely and a weaker yen might help.
Schools have already been closed, and the grocery stores are beginning to run low on staples such as bourbon, chips and non-perishable dips.
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This would be a more lasting, positive approach than are the periodic confrontations over specific issues such as autos, chips, foods and financial services.
The small and sleek corner space gets packed out quickly at weekends, drawing in locals with classics such as fish and chips or a full English breakfast.
As well as running Windows, Microsoft also showed the work it was doing to get applications such as Word, Powerpoint and Internet Explorer plus common tasks such as printing running on Arm chips.
The Dow Jones industrial average, on which blue chips such as Coca-Cola are listed, ended 1.6% lower at 10, 462.65.
But the long-term prospects for biomass are best with non-food based feedstocks such as switchgrass, wood chips and forest residues.
Household names these are not, but unlike Koreas struggling makers of me-too products such as cars and memory chips, Lims firm sticks to things others cant easily copy.
Mahendra Chavan, who lives in the western city of Pune, said he lost money on IPOs and now is focused on blue chips such as Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
Already, even with American unemployment at record post-war lows and the economy steaming ahead, industries such as steel and memory chips have resorted to anti-dumping suits to protect themselves against imports.
Clear gainers include Intel, which produces 85% of all microprocessors, and the makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips such as Japan's NEC and Toshiba and South Korea's Samsung Electronics, LG Semicon and Hyundai Electronics.
To overcome the problem of backward-compatibility, modern x86 chips such as the Pentium are able to take x86-style instructions from old software and split them up into several smaller micro-operations which lend themselves better to performance-enhancing trickery.
The short, intense spike of energy that these EMP weapons create can do irreparable harm to electronic devices (even those not in use, such as replacement microcircuits, chips and memory boards in warehouses) unless expensive measures have been taken to shield them.
And witness the split in the stockmarket between blue-chips such as Toyota, whose capitalisation is still three times that of the big three American car makers put together, and small, primarily domestic companies traded on the over-the-counter market, some two-thirds of which are trading for less than the net value of their assets.
Some carriers, such as Verizon, install computer chips in their phones that allow callers to be located.
PepsiCo, which is the world's biggest salty snack maker, noted that premium products such as Stacy's pita chips and Sabra hummus are seeing particularly strong growth.
And the feedstock, or food for the microbes, can be any type of agricultural product, from sugar cane to waste such as wheat straw and wood chips.
White still likes ST Micro for its focus on higher-margin chips for such gadgets as mobile phones and digital cameras.
At the moment, such reconfigurable chips are used mainly as a way of conjuring up specialist hardware in a hurry.
FPGAs is as a general-purpose glue that sticks together several different components, such as a microprocessor and its attendant chips, inside a particular device.
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