31.   Flash memory is a specialized semiconductor chip used to store data in electronic devices.

32.   Flash memory is used in the widest variety of portable digital devices, including cameras, audio players, cellular telephones and hand-held computers.

33.   Flash memory turns up in all sorts of products.

34.   For adults, many popular high-tech gifts also will be affected by a shortfall in components, most notably flash memory cards used to store data.

35.   For example, a smaller Silicon Valley company, Sandisk Corp., is already selling a similar system for increasing the storage capability of flash memory chip technology.

36.   For example, in-store kiosks could offer customers music downloaded and recorded on a CD or loaded directly into the flash memory of a digital music player.

37.   Flash memory is a type of semiconductor chip used to store data in electronic devices.

38.   Flash memory is increasingly used to store data in portable appliances such as phones.

39.   Flash memory, the coin of the realm for most mobile digital devices, is the right size and shape, but it is expensive.