Apple's acquisition of Anobit, an Israeli company specializing in the flash storage is the largest acquisition made by the Apple from NeXT, 15 years ago. It would amount to between $ 400 and $ 500 million.
As PA Semi Intrinsity or other company recently purchased by Apple, Anobit is a fabless, who works in process technically very advanced and has them made later by a third party. His area of expertise for the flash multi-level cell (multi-levels), which offer higher storage density to ordinary levels, but have the distinct disadvantage of being still very expensive and less durable.
Apple: the redemption of lintérêt dAnobit
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Anobit has a chip improves performance of memory via a technology called MSP (Memory Signal Processing). This technology works with NAND chips engraved in 20 nm or less and is already in use on our iPhone, iPad or MacBook Air and allows to improve life. For Cupertino is an opportunity to acquire a new technology that could be a competitive advantage even more durable than the patents are now apples.
The installation of a research center in Israel, near the "Technion" (Israel Institute of Technology) in Haifa, allows also to Apple to get closer to some key partners such as Intel and Qualcomm, already installed on site .
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