NAND flash memory supplies constrained (again)

February 19th, 2010 admin

Filed under: Hardware , iPod Family , Portables , iPad Two things happen like clockwork every year: Apple raises the capacities on its NAND flash -based iPods and the iPhone , and analysts like iSuppli release a report saying that worldwide supplies of NAND flash are likely to be constrained as a result. The supply constraints aren’t likely to affect Apple, which signed a supply deal with Toshiba last year , but other companies that depend on flash memory for their consumer electronics products may find themselves scrambling to find enough memory to keep production going … just like last year , and the year before that , when analysts said almost exactly the same thing. iSuppli predicts Apple will ship…


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