BBC News | Japanese Computer Chip Maker Files for Bankruptcy New York Times TOKYO — Elpida Memory, the world's third-largest maker of PC memory chips, filed for bankruptcy Monday with $5.6 billion in debt, crippled by cut-throat competition, a faltering global economy and a shift away from traditional PCs to smartphones and ... Japanese chipmaker Elpida files for bankruptcy Elpida Bankruptcy Comes After Failure to Follow Smartphones Wall St defies Europe as rally continues |