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Did the flash memory get smaller for the iPhone?

TSX

TSX

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I read a while back that apple was buying up all the 8gb and 16 gb memory chips for the new iPhone. Does anyone know if they got smaller? If they didn't i don't see the new iPhone having 32gb seeing as they cant fit 2 16gb chips in there.
 
Tallest Skil said:
With $30 billion, they could buy anything.😉

Of course it has. It's been a year since 16GB chips were the price of 32GB chips currently.
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I just bought me a 16gb sd card today for 32.00 shipped. I looked at the 32gb sd card and the cheapest was 86.00. On the net.
 
TSX said:
I just bought me a 16gb sd card today for 32.00 shipped. I looked at the 32gb sd card and the cheapest was 86.00. On the net.
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You are also not buying millions of them and you are buying an end-user packaged product. The pricing scheme is very different when you are buying raw chips as opposed to an end-user oriented product.
 
Guiyon said:
You are also not buying millions of them and you are buying an end-user packaged product. The pricing scheme is very different when you are buying raw chips as opposed to an end-user oriented product.
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I know that, but there is a 50.00 difference in price between 16gb and 32gb, and a 10.00 price difference between the 8gb and the 16gb.
 
TSX said:
I know that, but there is a 50.00 difference in price between 16gb and 32gb, and a 10.00 price difference between the 8gb and the 16gb.
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Aaand that's completely different storage than what Apple buys.

Embedded (device) NAND flash is less expensive than USB drive flash.
 
Not to mention the chips in the articles referred to by the OP are 8 and 16Gb. (That's gigaBIT) In other words it takes 8 16Gb chips to make a 16 GB NaND flash module for the iPhone.
When the pieces get smaller, so does the finished product.
 
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