But really smart connoisseurs of precious white would have stocked up on palladium, a platinum-group metal used in surgical devices, watches and electronic components.

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This means that components equivalent to those in electronic circuits can be constructed from appropriate patterns of bumps in the junction.

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In Europe four nations recently began cracking open 300 F-16 jet fighters like eggs and stuffing them with new electronic components that turn them into the hottest fighters in the sky.

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The Thailand floods impacted a number of electronics companies and constrained supply for some components and completed electronic products in C4Q 2011 and into 2012.

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The rash of e-cycling legislation in recent years has reinforced natural market forces driven by high prices and limited supplies of core electronic components like platinum and rare earth to promote the nascent industry.

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Inside, however, hundreds of employees in blue overcoats tend banks of squat pick and place machines that are punching as many as 8, 000 electronic components into a circuit board that will soon become part of a new networking product.

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