NAND Supplies Could Come Under Strain after Apple's Huge Order
NAND Supplies Could Come Under Strain after Apple's Huge Order
Posted 04/13/2009 at 5:21pm
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Apple is reported to have put NAND flash supplies under considerable strain by placing an order for 100 million 8Gb NAND flash chips with Samsung Electronics.
Taiwanese website Digitimes was the first to report on the issue. Sources told Digitimes that NAND supply will remain sparse until the end of May. NAND prices are expected to continue their upward trend on the back of this huge order. This is because NAND flash chip manufacturers are not keen on increasing production.
According to Daniel Amir, an analyst with Lazard Market Capital, Apple’s gargantuan order comprises both 16Gb and 8Gb NAND flash chips. Amir believes Apple’s order for 16Gb NAND is a harbinger of 32GB iPhones being around the corner. The same analyst had reported last month that industry insiders had told him that 32GB iPhones would become available in June, 2009.
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samuelgregor
April 13, 2009 at 8:22pm
Just because you can make anything with NAND gates doesn't mean you have to. Apple is the devil.
rob41
April 13, 2009 at 6:50pm
Apple blows! Even after conceeding that what they had was garbage and made the switch to pc components, they still have crap. No ammount of memory in the world will make their sub-par hardware cutting edge.
APPLE=SOFTWARE The hardware they have is always last years news. My laptop has an extreme quad core processor that apple doesn't even offer. I've got two SSD's in raid0 and two graphics cards. And I don't have some rediculous looking piece of fruit adorning a midrange (at best) overpriced paperweight!
Oh, and I'm glad I've already got my 8 Gig's of 1066 memory before apple caused prices to rise.
mlee19
April 13, 2009 at 6:02pm
yeah, thanks a lot apple(assholes!!). Now we can expect the prices to inflate for the rest of us.
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