Samsung has warned that there might be a shortage of NAND flash memory after Apple placed a large order.

Apple recently placed an order of 50 million 8GB flash chips for its new Iphone, and this has created a shortage, Samsung claims.

The order is for about 50 million GBs worth of flash, which is enough memory for three million 16GB versions, or six million 8GB versions. It seems that Apple is thinking big.

This order is on top of another 25 million 8GB chips Apple ordered in June for the first batch of Iphone 3Gs.

However, while Samsung is a major supper of NAND, it is by no means the only one, and there is a huge oversupply of NAND memory out there. Analysts had been talking about a collapse of the market and had been moaning that Apple's demands for the NAND had not been anywhere near enough to save it. So for Samsung to say that there will be a shortage is optimistic, to say the least. X

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