Apple Rumored to Be After Samsung Flash Memory

Steve Nixon writes "An unconfirmed report today from Reuters quotes an industry analyst firm iSuppli as saying that Apple plans to buy as much as 40 percent of Samsung's second-half flash memory output. The NAND flash memory cards will be used in a new, 4 GB iPod Mini, which Apple would release in time for the holiday shopping season, the report stated. The current version of the 4 GB mini contains a hard drive. Apple's iPod Shuffle uses flash memory."

Comments

Slashdot

[kevin_conaway]

Rumors for nerds. Stuff that may turn out to matter tomorrow.

Re:Slashdot

[$RANDOMLUSER]

This is actually Step 2 in the The Apple Product Cycle

Snappier? No, flashier!

[FunWithHeadlines]

So will the constant in-joke among the Mac crowd change from:

"It just feels snappier!"

to

"It just seems flashier!"

All your memory are belong to us

[Anonymous Coward]

All your memory are belong to us. Well 40% of it anyways. After we pay you for it.

Sincerely,

Apple Computer

Re:About time

[Rude Turnip]

I know! I go through about 10 or 20 hard drives per day and have to wear safety goggles because of all the shards of platters flying about!

Re:Finally

[Reducer2001]

I call FUD on you! People who post to ./ don't jog, their only heavy breathing occurs when a bugfix is released to the Linux kernel.

Re:how will it change the price?

[Overzeetop]

But then low-lifes like yourself would be part of the hip, chic, "wealthy-appearing" culture that is Apple's base. Since you obviously aren't rich enough to flush $350 for a consumer item that will be passe in a year, you arean't really a good advertisement for Apple, now are you?

Gotta keep the riff-raff out, you know? ;-)