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November 21, 2005
Stockpiling flash memory
Posted by Sandy
Apple says it will prepay $1.25 billion USD over three months to secure a reliable supply of flash memory from five suppliers: Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba.
“We want to be able to produce as many of our wildly popular iPods as the market demands,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO.
This is a neat move. This not only guarantees Apple access to the flash memory needed for future iPods, but also provides a potential headache for competitors that need to buy flash memory in quantity for their own MP3 players. (Has any company every
prepaid this much for electronic components?)
Meanwhile, Intel and Micron announced the formation of a new company to manufacture flash memory, with an initial investment of $1.2 billion each.
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1. Anonymous on November 21, 2005 05:04 PM writes...
Who says that they're only going to put it in iPods?
A nice big FlashRam disk inside an iMac (for remembering pre-translated Rosetta binaries) may well push performance through the roof...
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