IBM, chips give strong lift to tech stocks By: MarketWatch July 19, 2011 at 10:30 AM EDT Big Blue’s shares rise almost 4% after earnings report, as chip sector gains on positive brokerage note. Cisco, Apple, Yahoo also gain. Read More >> Related Stocks: Altera Corp Apple Broadcom Corp Cisco Systems Intel Corp International Business Machines Marvell Technology Inc Microchip Technology Yahoo