At the end of last year, Apple acquired Anobit, the deal is estimated at $ 400 to $ 500 million. The agreement between the two companies was signed on 6 January, but the deal was confirmed by an Apple representative on 10 January.
Later it became known that for the right to the possession of Israeli developer Apple paid $ 390 million. Anobit - a young company specializing in the design of controllers for flash management, gained prominence through the development, called Memory Signal Protection. MSP is an efficient algorithm for signal processing, which increases the performance and lifetime of chips.
Currently, Apple is the world's largest consumer of flash memory: the share of company from Cupertino is about 23% of the world's supply of these chips.