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Apple secures flash memory supplies till 2010 (and leaves no doubt as to who 0wnz the market now): “Apple on Monday announced that it has reached long-term supply agreements with Hynix, Intel, Micron, Samsung Electronics and Toshiba to secure the supply of NAND flash memory through 2010.” Apple will prepay its suppliers $1.5Bn in the [...]

Apple going for third memory supplier: Samsung and Toshiba, its main flash memory suppliers, to be joined by South-Korea based Hynix Semiconductor. The manufacturer will take over the 512MB/1GB chips (used on the iPod shuffle).

Side-fact: things to get better for memory chips’ supply and demand in December.