Apple is a really large consumer of NAND-flash memory and it is today buying large portions of memory chips from both Samsung and Toshiba. Tosbiha has strong bonds to SanDisk, which also buys a lot of memory chips, which makes Apple doubt how much chips it can actually buy from Toshiba. It is mainly low density chips Apple buys from Toshiba, 1Gbit or 512Mbit, for its iPod Shuffle and it is now looking for a new partner, Hynix, as it is having plans on increasing its manufacturing capacity. Source: DigiTimes
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