Ferreting out Apple's Internal Forecast for iPod/iPhone Sales

By Paul Kedrosky · Wednesday, May 2, 2007 ·
A great example of using multiple information sources to ferret out Apple's internal projections for iPod/iPhone sales:
Digitimes via EE Times Asia reports that Apple is negotiating to buy 500 million Samsung NAND flash chips. These are 4 GBit chips, so that means that a 4 GByte iPod nano or iPhone would require eight of these; an 8 GByte iPhone would need 16. Averaging out those numbers says that Apple is looking for flash supplies for somewhere around 50 million iPods and iPhones over the next nine months.
[via Blackfriar]