The recent availability of a 1.8-inch hard drive from Japan's Toshiba with a capacity of 40 gigabytes has fueled intense speculation that a 40-gigabyte iPod may see the light of day soon.

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At Japan's Toshiba Corp.

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Clear gainers include Intel, which produces 85% of all microprocessors, and the makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips such as Japan's NEC and Toshiba and South Korea's Samsung Electronics, LG Semicon and Hyundai Electronics.

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