Toshiba to sell flash memory to Apple
updated 10:10 pm EST, Thu December 9, 2004
Apple to use Toshiba chip
Toshiba, Japan's second largest chipmaker, has agreed to , according to a report by Xinhuanet. The company is expected to begin selling to Apple "early next year," according to Yasuo Morimoto, senior executive vice-president at Toshiba, adding credibility to inside reports by sites such as AppleInsider that Apple will soon introduce a flash-memory based iPod--possibly as soon as Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Analysts expect Apple's flash memory iPod will sell for US$149 to US$199. The same analyst says that the market for flash memory music players is five times as big as the hard-drive market by unit sales and double its size by revenue.
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Think again Toshiba
If I remember right, this is the second time Toshiba has essentially pre-announced an Apple product. It did the same with the 60Gb hard drives used in the iPod photo, sparking a denial from Apple.
Apple's not real big on pre-announcing its products, let alone having someone else do it, as ATI learned to its cost a few years ago.
I wonder if this is another honest mistake from Toshiba. Maybe it's nothing to do with flash iPods. We'll see. Still, I wouldn't want to be Yasuo Morimoto right now...