Apple To Purchase Anobit for $400-$500 Million
Well we all know that Apple has plenty of cash to splash and if these latest rumors turn out to be true this would be one of their largest acquistions ever. TechCrunch are reporting that Apple are after Anobit, a fabless semiconductor company specialising in flash storage. Apparently, Apple are reliant on Anobit’s technology in the iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air. Apple are intent on increasing the amount of flash memory storage in a device and improve long term reliability and Anobit looks like the company to help them do so.
So, keep checking back and we’ll let you know what happens next…
About Anobit
Here’s a little additional information about Anobit taken directly from their website:
"Anobit provides flash storage solutions for the Enterprise and Mobile markets. It’s MSP™ (Memory Signal Processing) technology significantly improves the endurance, performance and cost of flash storage products and systems. Anobit’s products are used by world leading flash manufacturers, consumer electronics vendors and storage system providers".
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
