Rumor: Apple ordered 100 million chips for new device, triggers supply crunch
April 10th, 2009 by Kunal
June ’09 is very close and Apple is expected to launch the new iPhone. So most Apple news that we’ll be hearing for the next two months will be iPhone rumors. This is one of those.
In June ’08 there were rumors that Apple placed a huge 50 million 8Gbit (Gigabit) NAND chips for the launch of the iPhone 3G that we use today (also the 2nd gen iPod Touch). This year the figure has doubled, this time its 100 million 8Gbit NAND chips from Samsung. The chips are later assembled to build 8GB, 16GB, 32GB or 64GB memory which can be seen in the next iPhone and other Apple devices.
The huge order for 8Gbit chips is expected to create a shortage for these chips in the market which may delay launches from other mobile manufacturers.
100 million 8 gigabit chips would mean a capacity of 12.5 million devices running 8GB memory. This would be equal to 2.25 million 16GB devices and 2 million 32GB devices.
via [iPhone Help]
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Categories: Apple, Market Watch, Tech Industry News | Tags: apple nand market, gigabit, iphone, iphone memory chips, nand chips
