AeroTech bid for the chip business and won the contract.

These were mortgages to blue chip businesses or governments that would definitely be repaid.

"We don't see the chip business coming back any time soon."

Motorola's operations have been slower to recover than those in other sectors of the chip business.

At the time, his own chip business was not exactly shining.

The dispute is one of many involving patents in the chip business.

"Fixing its chip business goes together with improving the games division."

The chip business, a fountain of gloom last year, is a source of hope now.

The chip business "is the largest consumer of capital and research and development resources," he said.

Last month Intel sold its money-losing mobile chip business for $600 million.