Flash Memory Market: Apple iPhone Needs More Memory!

Posted on February 24, 2008
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Apple buys 13% of the world’s production of flash-memory. This gigantic share in the worlds flash-memory sales is a vivid indicator of a roaring success of iPod media players.

At the moment the purchase amounts of Apple is a little lower and the prices for flash-memory have fallen. There are two opinions of the experts on the issue:

The production of iPod is higher than the demand on it
The decrease in purchase amount carries seasonal character

As spring approaches the interest towards electronics increases, and thus purchase amount of parts increase including flash-memory. Soon Apple is likely to need more flash-memory due to the replenishment in its multitouch family.

LoopRumors says: the company Apple is working on the new sensor device on base of the intelligent technology multitouch.

Apple will release the new multitouch in the middle of 2008.

The new device on the base of the technology Mutlitouch 2.0 will use a more powerful processor which will be able to cope with such complicated tasks as video-conferences iChat through wireless connection Wi-Fi. The certain model of the processor hasn’t been announced. At the same time it is possible that the device will use the new intention by Intel – Montevina

According to a second suggestion – the novelty will be realized on the base of a processor created specially for MacBook Air.

Additional information: the length of the novelty will be bigger than the length of iPhone and iPod touch. The concrete dimensions haven’t been announced. The new device will combine the features of a pocket PC and a cell phone. Among its abilities will be work with powerful applications via 3G networks. It is possible that the applications that independent developers will create with the help of SDK for Apple iPhone will be a solid base for the novelty.

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