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Apple Enters Agreement for 40 Million Gigabytes of Flash Memory in 2006

Friday, March 31st, 2006 at 6:20 PM - by

Apple Computer has agreed to buy some 40 million gigabytes (GB) of NAND flash memory from Hynix Semiconductor, Inc. in 2006. Bloomberg reported Friday that Apple had entered into an agreement with Hynix that will cover some 20% of the company's NAND flash memory production until the year 2010, indicating that Apple intends to remain in the digital media device market for some time to come.

The agreement was reached in December, and Bloomberg reported that undisclosed aspects of the deal are a mix of binding and non-binding agreements.

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Bosco said:

member since 03 Jun 2002 with 999 posts, unranked, send him a message or view his profile

Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:53 pm

BFD. 10 years from now, computers that have just 40 Million GB won't even be able to boot Mac OS X 10.14 "Himalayan".

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A guest said: (hide)

Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:27 pm

or about 10 mil 4gb nano's. remember when that number would have been insane all of apple's products combined, in 3 year cycle, not and not a quarterly report?

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A guest said: (hide)

Fri Mar 31, 2006 11:59 pm

April Fools!?!?

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LaurieF said:

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Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:33 am

That's a seriously big number. I just ran this

Code:
#include <stdio.h>

int main()

{

   long j, i;

   for (j = 0; j < 4000; j++)

   {

      if (j % 250 == 0)

         printf("%d\n", j);

       for (i = 0; i < 1000000000; i++);

   }

   return 0;

}

on my new iMac and it took just over four hours to run.

And that's just 4,000 x 1,000,000,000.

[/boggle]

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A guest said: (hide)

Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:41 am

Or are they looking to put it in computers for instant-on with no power consumption?

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mahuti said:

member since 09 Jan 2003 with 370 posts, TMO Staff, send him a message or view his profile

Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:50 pm

Guest wrote:
Or are they looking to put it in computers for instant-on with no power consumption?

Wouldn't that be great. I'd be pleased as punch to have a computer with instant on / off.

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A guest said: (hide)

Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:02 pm

Apple allready had one of those. It was called Newton.

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A guest said: (hide)

Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:34 am

Guest wrote:
Apple allready had one of those. It was called Newton.

Who cares? The Newton's dead as a doornail.

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