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Where Will Apple Get Flash Memory Now?
An anonymous reader writes "EE Times examines whether Samsung could be about to control the equipment output of Apple by putting the Cupertino company on a rationed supply of NAND flash as the non-volatile memory goes into short supply in 2013. The analysis argues that Apple may need to put down billions of dollars of cash to fund a guaranteed NAND flash supply plan, something that Samsung did in the middle of the last decade."
they could probably pay someone to assemble the bits by hand under an electron microscope.
If Steve Jobs were still alive, he'd just find the next big thing, and stop using NAND flash. Memristors anyone?
Of course, if anyone else tried this, the new tech would be non-viable, but Steve would use his force of will to make the new tech work at the price he wanted to pay.
All ideas^H^H^H^H^Hprocesses in this post are Patent Pending. (as well as the process of patenting all postings)
...they invent flash and sue everyone who uses their patent.
OH YEAH?!! Well, your favorite brand of pencil sucks. They don't even use sustainably-grown cedar!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
If you have Apple's pile of cash, getting a fab is pretty damn easy. You just hire people who know exactly what they are doing. If you scramble, you can have blueprints and permits done in a month, all the POs and contracts can be signed by next month, and you can break the ground and go ahead. All it takes is focused people who know exactly what it takes in their discipline -- architects, process engineers, building site managers, etc.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
He did specify women.
That project might not succeed, but if they're getting 18 women pregnant I suspect there are a lot of happy developers anyway.