Spansion Passes Intel In Cell Phone Flash Market

[HardOCP News]

InfoWorld says that there has been a sharp rise in the number of NOR flash chips it sold by Spansion to cell phone makers last year. This sharp increase, combined with Intel’s reported production problems, has allowed the company to take over the number one spot.

Spansion sold $1.8 billion worth of NOR flash in that sector during 2006, increasing 35 percent above its sales for 2005 and growing far faster than the market as a whole, which rose 16.4 percent to $6.1 billion, said iSuppli Corp.