Apple has placed huge orders for flash memory, forcing Samsung to inform less important customers it plans to reduce the quantity of flash it will ship to them from July.
We already know Apple and its manufacturing partners are already building new model iPhones, and its conceivable the flash memory order is for future manufacturing of the product.
"Samsung recently informed them it has secured orders for 50 million 8GB-equivalent flash chips mainly for use in Apple's iPhone," DigitTimes reports. "Amid the new orders, Samsung said it would sharply cut supply to other customers in July."
However, the new iPhone is set to sell at a low and subsidised price, which we think may pressurise iPod sales. We suspect Apple will now be looking to upgrade the iPod range to compete with its own product, wit
