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Apple was Samsung's second-largest client last year, mainly purchasing semi-conductors.
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"The race to find ample capacity for these highly specialized components semi-conductors, displays, sensors, resistors, etc. before inventory depletes will be very challenging," IHS Global Insight Automotive Group said Thursday in a report.
Parts Shortage Hamstrings GM Plant Sharon Terlep 2011
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Apple was Samsung's second-largest client last year, mainly purchasing semi-conductors.
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The reason we don't worry about semiconductor imports is that we assume that the producers are going to define their self-interest in economic terms - that they will continue to produce and sell semi-conductors as long as it is profitable to do so.
Basic Oil Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Importation of semi-conductors from Asia takes American jobs, and will eventually lose American the current technilogical superiority we have, as Production experience is vital to development of proper R&D.
Basic Oil Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Apple was Samsung's second-largest client last year, mainly purchasing semi-conductors.
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Apple was Samsung's second-largest client last year, mainly purchasing semi-conductors.
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And the importation of semi-conductors from Asia does not cost Americans jobs.
Basic Oil Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"But semi-conductors tend to be the last industry to see a shift and investors don't have a lot of confidence in the industry."
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Indium, as indium phosphide, is used to make photovoltaic devices (devices that transform light energy into electricity), semi-conductors, high-speed transistors, specialized solders and metal alloys.
Indium 2008
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