www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Apple’s iPhone is expected to generate insatiable demand for NAND-type flash memory in 2010, thanks to its huge sales and high memory usage. The high demand is also helping to strain supplies for the year.

Global NAND flash revenue will rise to $18.1 billion in 2010 due to demand driven by the iPhone and competitive products. Handsets containing embedded NAND flash are also expected to rise sharply in 2010 because of the increasing shipments of the iPhone and the arrival of competitive smart-phone products.

According to Michael Yang, senior analyst for memory and storage at iSuppli, an average of 35.2Gbytes of NAND will be used in each iPhone sold in 2010, besides, the iPhone shipments are set to rise to 33 million in 2010, up 31.5 percent from 25.1 million in 2009 and with the iPhone already the largest application for NAND, this huge growth is likely to lead to some periods of undersupply for the year.