Apple orders 50 million iPhone NAND chips from Samsung, rest of world put on hold?

July 02nd, 2008 | Category: Storage, Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Daaaamn, talk about clout. whether DigiTimes‘ sources are right, next Samsung, the world’s primary supplier of flash memory, just told its non-Apple customers to suck it in favor of a “large batch of orders” it received from Cupertino. The order, is said to be for 50-million “8Gb-equivalent” (we assume they mean gigabyte, or GB) NAND chips “mainly for use in Apple’s iPhone.” that order pursues a June procurement for 25 million of the same chips. In response, Samsung has reportedly

told its lesser customers that it would “sharply cut supply” of NAND to them while the order is being fulfilled. The shortage is compounded by Samsung lowering its manufacturing output in April and May in an attempt to reduce oversupply. Still, whether these numbers are true (they seem high and DigiTimes can be hit or miss with its Apple sources) thereupon the world is about to be awash in iPhone 3Gs come July 11th.

Original post by Thomas Ricker

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