Apple Needs Memory Toshiba Has It; 1GHz iPhone Processor In The Works

Sources confirm that Apple Inc. is seeking flash memory for its future handhelds. Samsung is currently developing technology that will increase the speed of future iPhone models.

The Toshiba corporation may face an overwhelming task of fulfilling all of the memory requests by Apple.

Toshiba is rumored to have taken a large order for flash memory from Apple. It has been verified that the two companies have agreed to a $500 million contract.

Industry sources say that the Toshiba manufacturing division is running on all cylinders and that it will increase it's current output by 85 percent of its current level over the next 30 days. This focus on the Apple orders may hurt other companies who have smaller memory demands for their products, since Apple will require most of Toshiba's resources.

This is not the first time Apple has caused a flash memory shortage. Insiders speculate that this happens practically every time a new Apple product hits the market.

On to other somewhat related news...

Samsung shares details on the 1GHz Advanced RISC Machine micro-processor

Last week, Samsung upped the ante in the race for fastest mobile micro-processor. It went public with the news that it is producing the first ARM-based micro-processor based on the 45 nanometer assembly process.

As of now the micro-processor has been named the "Hummingbird", which speaks to the smaller size, and cooler running design. These changes will maximize the overall speed of the upcoming micro-processors to 1GHz, that will propel the speed well past Samsung's current 830MHz. It will hopefully achieve this new speed-record while not heating up and draining our iPhone 3GS batteries.

Who knows if the "hummingbird" processor will actually make it to future Apple devices. Apple which in the past has exclusively used Samsung micro-processors, is rumored to currently be courting the services of other similar companies.

Foxconn Gives Dead Engineer's Family $44,000 In Compensation

The saga of the suicidal Foxconn engineer, who misplaced an iPhone 4G prototype, moves on. The New York Times has reported that Sun Danyong’s family has received, a sum of money which equals $44,000-U.S., and that his girlfriend also was given a Mac laptop from Foxconn.

Foxconn has admitted to the "slight" manhandling of Danyong during a heated interrogation. They were trying to ascertain the whereabouts of the new iPhone prototype. They acknowledged that they, "became a little angry" after Danyong said he "Lost" then subsequently found the newly designed iPhones.

James Lee, the GM of Chinese operations at Foxconn maintains:

“Several times he had some products missing, then he got them back … We don’t know who took the product, but it was at his stop”

Foxconn did not go public with the scale of compensating payment to the family and girlfriend, Danyong's brother broke the story to the news outlets.

Danyong's job at Foxconn was to ship the new iPhone prototypes to Apple in the United States. As hes was transporting the 16 iPhones he had noticed, and then subsequently told Foxconn, that the unit became misplaced. It has been reported that once he was in custody of Foxconn security he was violently worked over as they rummaged through his apartment.

iPhone 3.0 Feature of the Day: Undo and Redo Typing

Shake your iPhone to undo and redo typing.




No matter what facet of the iPhone one is utelizing, if a mistake is made while typing simply shake the iPhone. If the iPhone user instantly regrets shaking away the mistake and text retrieval is needed, just shake it up once more.

If something else was written prior to starting your "undo shake", the iphone will return to it.