Apple Causes NAND Shortage in Taiwan
Industry sources say that Apple's high demand for NAND flash chips has resulted in Taiwan-based memory module houses seeing a shortage.
Digitimes today cites industry sources who claim that major manufacturers are allocating more supplies for Apple meaning other orders for other companies are being cut.
Samsung Electronics has informed Taiwan module makers that it will halve its NAND flash supply to them in September, and Micron Technology has also told some of its downstream customers that no NAND flash chips are available, claimed the sources. Toshiba and Hynix Semiconductor are also giving priority to Apple, and are offering limited supply to the spot market, the sources added.
Maybe demand for the new iPod touch and iPod nano players are greater than usual, or maybe this could mean that Apple has something else up its sleeve.
Maybe they're fitting more explosives into the iGrenade...
When it comes to Apple, I was thinking "For the Alliance" would've been more appropriate.
Horde would never use Apple.
If they equip them with 64 or 128GB of Flash memory, it'd probably need quite an amount (as opposed to 4-32GB per Digital Audio player).
Maybe they're fitting more explosives into the iGrenade...
Ahh Ahhhhh!!!
When it comes to Apple, I was thinking "For the Alliance" would've been more appropriate.
Horde would never use Apple.
Very smart move.
You poor poor windows freaks....
*cough* ijob *cough*
but seriously, i hate crApple, and I won't buy any of their products, all their doing is dri\/ing up the cost of nand based de\/ices for the rest of the market. If it happens that they're using the chips too... so be it, it ser\/es two purposes.
In all honesty this makes sense as newer Ipods will have even more memory.
I conclude they will next release the iFlashGrenade.
Nice!
These companies (all of them in the article) have already been convicted and fined for collusion 2-3 years ago. I would absolutely not be surprised if they were doing it again. I have to agree... that sounds like BS to raise prices.