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According to a number of sources, Apple recently placed an order for 50 million 8Gb flash chips that it plans to use for its iPhone, and as Samsung has contracted Apple to supply of flash memory back, other Samsung customers may just have to wait in line.

According to one calculation, this translates into 50 million GBs worth of flash or enough memory for 5 million 16GB versions and 5 million 8GB iPhone units.

This is roughly inline with what Apple has said that it expects to sell 10 million iPhones this year globally.