Apple might be planning to Anobit, an Israel lwa arabs for illicit arms developer of technology in the area of flash memory to take over. The company would be 400 to 500 million dollars to pay for the acquisition. Apple has the message not yet confirmed.
The news comes from Calcalist, an Israeli newspaper, is to read at TechCrunch. According to Calcalist want Apple the Israeli hardwareontwikkelaar take over because of its Memory Signal Processing technology. On its website, promises the company, thanks to its technology, with mlc flash memory, the speed of slc flash memory.
Although Anobit is not itself a list with current customers engaged, makes Apple according to Calcalist already using Anobit-flash technology in the iPhone, iPad and Macbook Air products. A Hynix-flashgeheugenchip in the new iPhone 4S would use Anobit technology.
Anobit also has the MPS22xx-series embedded flashcontrollers for smartphones and tablets developed. In August this year the company announced 20 million of these controllers are sold.
The acquisition of hardware firms Apple is on the fingers of one hand to count. The company bought in the past NeXT, founded by Steve Jobs, Raycer Graphics, Intrinsity and PA Semi.