Another day, another Apple rumor. Oh wait, this one isn't a rumor. That's right, according to Digitimes, the Cupertino-based company Apple has ordered in a whopping 100 million flash memory chips from Samsung, in the dainty size of 8Gb.So what does this mean, and why does it even matter? Well, to us consumers it doesn't mean much, except the glaringly obvious implication that Apple will release a new iPhone this year. However, to other companies, this poses quite an issue. Those wishing to get hold of some 8Gb memory chips will be hard pressed to do so, until the end of May, at the very least. To add fuel to the fire, the tightened supply of memory has caused prices to rise by 16% for the first half of April, although this isn't entirely Apple's fault; Nokia and Sony have reportedly been stocking up, also.
The chips are combined during the manufacturing process, to create 8GB, 16GB and 32GB sized devices, so we won't be stuck with poor storage.
Keep an eye out as there will, no doubt, be more Apple rumors doing the rounds tomorrow.
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And 100 million 8 gigabit chips is really not that much.
Do the math yourselves:
8 Gb = 1 GB
100 Million 8Gb chips then = 100 Million 1GB chips
So really, that means they have 100 Million GB's to work with.
That means either:
12.5 Million 8 GB devices
or
6.25 million 16 GB devices
or
3.125 million 32 GB devices
That's really not that many devices.
WRONG
In conventional modern usage, a byte is 8 bits. One gigabyte is equivalent to eight gigabits.
You just repeated what he said.
Anyway yeah, seriously, OP should know this.
In conventional modern usage, a byte is 8 bits. One gigabyte is equivalent to eight gigabits.
yeah because in the older days one byte was only 7 bits
/sarcasm
Learn to ready before you shout out WRONG
In conventional modern usage, a byte is 8 bits. One gigabyte is equivalent to eight gigabits.
In conventional modern usage, a byte is 8 bits. One gigabyte is equivalent to eight gigabits.
OOPS, I meant to have replied to the original post, sorry to add to confusion.
In conventional modern usage, a byte is 8 bits. One gigabyte is equivalent to eight gigabits.
yeah because in the older days one byte was only 7 bits
/sarcasm
Learn to ready before you shout out WRONG
Well, a character was 7 bits originally.
Check out the iFixit take-apart. They used 8GByte NAND chips from Toshiba (also Toshiba on 2G iphone)
http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/First-Look/iPhone-3G/600/4
Would there not be a higher chance of this stuff being used for the lower capacity products from Apple?
so you want a 8GB ipod touch? remember in case you didn't read the posts above, 8bits in a byte, so 64 gigabits = 8GB
Magnetic high capacity HDD FTW.
Hey, look: There's a reason portable MP3 players generaly do NOT use HDDs.
Now look sad and say "Smashy-smashy"
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