On-off switches are the building blocks of memory chips and computer processors.
The United States imposed 45percentt duties on Hynix's memory chips and European Union regulators imposed a 35percenttaxax.
As exports by Taiwanese makers of smartphones, memory chips and display panels sag, that threat is becoming increasingly clear.
Factories in Thailand also produce such things as cameras, headphones, inkjet printers, compressors for refrigerators, memory chips and computer microprocessors.
These tags archive their data in memory chips, and are eventually recovered when a fish is caught and butchered.
Samsung, which last year generated more profit than any other Asian electronics company, is benefiting from surging demand for its memory chips and flat-panel displays.
With half the inventory growth coming from flash memory chips and chip sets, Intel said the buildup would help it gain market share in those sectors.
The images are stored in memory chips and then downloaded to a computer for viewing, either as still pictures or as a kind of home movie.
Samsung Electronics said it earned $1.46 billion in the first quarter, an increase of 53percentt, on strong sales of its memory chips and mobile phones.
In time, it hopes those efforts can become the foundation for more complicated devices like silicon solar panels, powerful memory chips and thin films for flexible electronic displays.
