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Any ideas how much that 1TB NAND chip costs? Significantly less than Apples $500 premium for the 1TB SKU I'm sure, but how much less exactly?

• 7speter 2y ago
  Terabyte nvmes selling for 60-80 dollars these days, and thats much higher than the prices last year. You’d be best off getting the top stuff though, I doubt Apple is using Chinese QLC, or bottom binned TLC.
  • jsheard 2y ago
    I suppose 2230 NVMe drives are probably the best proxy because those use a single very dense NAND chip similar to the one in the iPhone. Those are around $100 for 1TB TLC, but that includes the NVMe controller and retail markup.
    • NikkiA 2y ago
      They're also using bulk pricing for the IC though, single quantity from digikey is around $130 https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/memory/774?s=N4IgjCBcpgLATFUBjKAzAhgGwM4FMAaEAeygG0QB2AZgAZaxaQBdIgBwBcoQBlDgJwCWAOwDmIAL5SgA https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/memory/774?s=N4Ig...
• NikkiA 2y ago
  A single 8Tbit NAND is about $130 in single quantities.
  • throitallaway 2y ago
    Why use bits here when storage is usually measured in bytes? 8 Terabit == 1 Terabyte.
    • fragmede 2y ago
      because that's what the underlying NAND chips the actual storage is made up of, are measured in
    • jeroenhd 2y ago
      The industry uses bits rather than bytes. If you buy 1tb NAND from a factory or NAND dealer, you're going to get 128GiB (or perhaps even 125TiB) of storage. The conversion to bytes generally happens the moment products start being offered to end users.