LED Shortages Killing MacBook Pro Supplies?
AppleInsider posts that a supply shortage of LED-backlit displays are causing shipping delays for the new MacBook Pro models that employ the displays.
According to the reported most third-party retailers have seen no stock in the units and the online Apple Store is showing 7-10 days shipping estimates.
At this time it is unknown whether the shortage is problems with LED-backlit display yield rates or that quality-assurance issues are at fault.
iPhone and iPod Consume 25% of NAND Flash
i4u.com who cites the DRAMeXchange as a source states that Apple’s iPhone and iPod will take up around 25% of the worlds NAND flash production.
The site explains that since 2Q07 NAND flash producers have begun producing new chips based on thinner circuitry, however the change has had a massive effect of the yield rates of NAND flash.
The site states that NAND chips will go up in price.
Comments and Trackbacks
All comments made are owned by their authors. Please keep discussion clean and relevant to the main article. Basic HTML tags can be used for formatting comments, and avatars are provided by the Gravatar service.
Trackback link for this entry | RSS Feed for comments