iPod Touch Screen Panel Shortage

According to a Digitimes report, touch screen panels are running short at present. This may delay shipments of the iPod touch.

Following the launch of the iPod touch in September Apple originally planned to rapidly grow global shipments up to the year-end holidays. However, due to the shortage of touch screen panels, volume shipments have been pushed back to this month, added the sources.

According to Digitimes sources this news may dash the expectations of rebounding NAND flash prices. There sources say that if the NAND flash makers were able to make shipments to Apple as planned, they would not have had to face pressure to sell their products to other vendors. In the long-term it is unlikely prices in the NAND flash market will stabilize.


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