Edible Apple

Digitimes reports that Apple’s insatiable and growing appetite for NAND flash in its products is leaving the rest of Taiwan with a “serious shortage of the memory chips.”

Samsung Electronics has informed Taiwan module makers that it will halve its NAND flash supply to them in September, and Micron Technology has also told some of its downstream customers that no NAND flash chips are available, claimed the sources. Toshiba and Hynix Semiconductor are also giving priority to Apple, and are offering limited supply to the spot market…