“Following recent signs of recovery for the price of NAND flash, industry sources are confident that the industry should break out of its low point as Apple is booking considerable capacity at chip makers, according to industry sources,” Josephine Lien and Esther Lam report for DigiTimes.

“Apple is likely to debut a new version of its iPod with a larger memory capacity, probably with 8GB of NAND flash, according to industry sources. Industry sources hinted that both leading Korea-based chipmakers, including Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor have both landed more orders from Apple,” Lien and Lam report.

Sources at memory makers say that “major OEM makers” have resumed their orders at chipmakers in preparation for the seasonal third quarter’s increased demand and that shipments for MP3 players are “picking up” and represents an “industry-wide rebound.”

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MacDailyNews Take: Well if you want the nano to be video-capable, you do need more storage capacity…

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