Appletell recently reported on a rumor concerning Apple purchasing Anobit, a maker of flash controllers. While Israeli media reported the purchase for as much as $500 million on December 20th, Apple declined to comment at the time. In an email to Reuters, Apple confirmed they did, in fact, purchase Anobit without verifying the purchase price.

Apple uses solid-state drives (SSD)—which consist of flash memory—in the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch/nano/shuffle and MacBook Air, as well being build-to-order options in the Mac Mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro. It would make sense that Apple would want to have the best SSD technology for low price and stability, which is why it’s rumored Apple is interested in purchasing Anobit, a maker of flash controllers.

In these job(s)less times, it’s getting rare to hear that anyone is getting hired. But when you’re Steve Wozniak, maybe it’s a different story. The New York Times published an excellent article about Woz’s new job at Fusion-io, a company that specializes in putting flash memory to work. He’s already on the advisory board, but Woz will now become the Chief Scientist.

If you’ve wondered how much flash memory Apple uses, you’ll be in for a shock. According to analysts at DRAMeXchange, the electronics giant managed to acquire approximately 25% of worldwide flash memory for use with the iPod and iPhone. Of course, with the law of supply and demand, this will drive prices skywards. Adding to more »