The most important part is a Samsung K9LCG08U1M 8GB NAND Flash chip.

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Prices of the widely used 32-gigabit NAND flash chip, typically used in smartphones and tablets to store data, jumped as much as 17.7% in late Asia trade Monday, according to DRAMeXchange, Asia's biggest spot market for chips.

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The company blamed the miss on a NAND flash memory chip shortage.

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It runs on an Intel Core 2 Duo chip, and it supports Adobe Flash.

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Considering the Nokia N900 runs Flash 9 extremely well on a 600MHz ARM Cortex A8-based TI OMAP 3 processor (and the Palm Pre, which uses the same chip, will be able to run Flash 10.1 when webOS 1.4 comes out) we don't see any reason other than politics that the iPad can't do it on that fancy new 1GHz dual-core Cortex A9-based A4 chip.

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This obviously spells opportunity for chip makers such as Intel and AMD, along with flash memory players like SanDisk.

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Mr. Lam said that could indicate a decision by Apple not to buy memory from Samsung, the world's biggest supplier of flash memory chips, amid continuing patent litigation between Apple and the chip maker's parent.

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