Apple Causes NAND Shortage in Taiwan
Industry sources say that Apple's high demand for NAND flash chips has resulted in Taiwan-based memory module houses seeing a shortage.
Digitimes today cites industry sources who claim that major manufacturers are allocating more supplies for Apple meaning other orders for other companies are being cut.
Samsung Electronics has informed Taiwan module makers that it will halve its NAND flash supply to them in September, and Micron Technology has also told some of its downstream customers that no NAND flash chips are available, claimed the sources. Toshiba and Hynix Semiconductor are also giving priority to Apple, and are offering limited supply to the spot market, the sources added.
Maybe demand for the new iPod touch and iPod nano players are greater than usual, or maybe this could mean that Apple has something else up its sleeve.
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and again - who cares?
Yet another reason to hate the fruity buggers!
This is just stupid. For 2 years we've been seeing those companies bragging with their good ssd's and good supplies. Now they just have more demand than what they produce? And this for something that sells at a premium price. Wish that was a joke.