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HONG KONG (Dow Jones)–The popularity of Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) new iPad and iphone is spurring rival computer and smartphone makers to launch similar products to stay competitive, helping to drive up demand for key components such as memory chips.

Chip makers and analysts say demand for flash memory chips, used to store data in tablet PCs, mobile handsets and other consumer electronics, remains strong leading up to the busy second half of the year, while supplies remain tight. These favorable market conditions should enable chip prices to remain stable for the next few months, helping to boost earnings at flash memory chip makers including Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE), Toshiba Corp. (6502.TO), Micron Technology Inc. (MU) and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. (000660.SE).

“Given the low level of capital expenditure made by NAND flash makers last year, we foresee some limitation in the increase of overall supply of NAND chips this year,” Keisuke Ohmori, a spokesman at Japan’s Toshiba, the world’s second largest maker of NAND flash memory chips by revenue after Samsung, says.

Ohmori said supply in the NAND flash market is expected to be tighter in the second half of this year.

Since its launch in April in the U.S., Apple has sold about 3 million iPads. And Apple’s newest version of its iPhone, the iPhone 4, is also shaping up to be a blockbuster — the company took preorders for more than 600,000 of the devices on its first day of availability, while carrier AT&T Inc. (T) had to stop taking advance orders because of inventory issues and stronger-than-expected demand.

“The success of the iPhone in the smart-phone category has spurred the launch of a series of competitive mobile phones. Beyond the smart-phone segment, a number of other promising products are driving the NAND market this year including e-books and tablet PCs,” says Michael Yang, an analyst at market research firm iSuppli Corp.

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Cheap Cheap Cheap USB Drives!

“In this world, you get what you pay for.” **

Here is a lesson about really cheap USB drives.  All USB drives are quality tested as part of their manufacturing process.  About 1/3 of the drives don’t pass the test.  The failures either don’t work or don’t have enough memory to qualify for the capacity as produced

Drive makers sell the failed drives for pennies on the dollar.  And voilà, these inferior, second-rate drives end up all over the internet for sale at cut-rate prices.  You can find cheap all over the internet.  Knockoffs like counterfeit Breitling watches, fake Coach^® bags or Manolo Blahnik shoes are for sale for a fraction of the real deal.

So what?  If you need your flash drives to store valuable information or reliably transport digital information, don’t count on knockoffs.  “In this world, you get what you pay for.” ** If you are using USB flash drives to promote your business, don’t take the risk of using substandard chips.  Make sure you promote your company’s fine image using original, quality assured, tier 1 drives.

We sell USB Drives but not those gray market drives you can find on the internet, really, really cheap.  Since we sell promotions and products to create a positive image for our customers, only the best will do.  Our drives are built with Tier 1 chips and we offer a written life-time guarantee with every drive shipped.  No matter who has the drives or to whom our customers’ distribute our drives, the guarantee is there with free tech support.

If you need help creating a promotion for your company or organization, give us a call so we can showcase our fine service.  Buy with confidence and leave those cut-rate drives in cyberspace where they can’t hurt you.

**Extra credit for sending me an email telling whose quote this is.