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Where Will Apple Get Flash Memory Now?

Posted by timothy on from the stealing-american-jobs-by-jingo dept.

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."

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  1. Re:so who is samsung going to sell to? by h4rr4r · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This.
    The article is completely crap. Samsung will sell flash to anyone who will buy it, until they are out of capacity. Sure they will likely give better deals, faster delivery, whatever to their own mobile and computer divisions, but they are in the business of selling these chips. They are not out of spite going to ignore a huge customer.

  2. Re: Non story by c · · Score: 4, Interesting

    if flash gets tight the ones I see it hurting are those Droid tablets that are in a race to the bottom right now.

    If flash gets tight, Adnroid tablet makers don't have many qualms about reducing internal flash and externalizing storage costs via (micro-)SD cards. As it is, a lot of those tablets might already be using lower capacity/spec flash that Apple wouldn't touch if it was free...

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