New iPhones are being prepared for launch and Apple has ordered a 100 million 8Gb chips according to rumors from Taiwanese sources. This is double the quantity ordered by Apple last year. So much for the recession @ Apple…
These chips are put together during manufacturing process to boost device capacities upto 32GB. 100 million 8 gigabit chips would mean a capacity of 12.5 million devices running 8GB memory. This would be equal to 2.25 million 16GB devices and 2 million 32GB devices. Considering that iPod’s, iPod Touch, iPhones all use this chip – the order size looks fair enough to us; but Digitimes claims that this order is enough to squeeze supply in the Asian markets. So shall we expect rates to shoot up?
“As Toshiba, Hynix Semiconductor, Intel and Micron Technology have allocated less chip supplies to the Asia market since early April, memory module makers are striving to grab more NAND flash chips to meet substantial volumes of short lead-time orders from system makers, the sources indicated.”
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