Samsung outs mobile Flash that cuts a dash Samsung is now mass-producing "ultra-fast" Flash memory - the fastest of its kind, the Korean company claims - for phones and tablets. According to Samsung, the memory shifts bits at four times the speed of the firm's previous Embedded Multimedia Card (eMMC) parts, delivering sequential read and write speeds of less than 140MB …
You beat me to it. I was going to say...
"Volume production now means the Samsung Flash will be appearing in devices any month now. iPhone 5, anyone?"
Yes, at which point Apple will patent the idea of using this ultra fast Flash memory in portable devices, and accuse anyone else who uses it of copying their tech, and try to get it banned.
Erm, they do insist that there's a complete separation between the phone business and the making iPhone component business, and all those stories about the component team leaking details about the iPhone to the Galaxy S design crew were complete nonsense.
But if they've given up on that myth now it would be less embarrassing.
When has Apple ever sued anyone over hardware patents?
Apple is primarily a software company. Samsung is primarily a hardware company.
Hence why Apple sues Samsung over visual style and software elements and Samsung fires back about hardware patents.
Samsung is in business to make money and therefore they aren't going to refuse a large order for parts from Apple.
Commodore in the 1980s was making the 6502 processors used by Apple, Atari and many other of their competitors yet they didn't play dirty.
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