Anobit sold after a week of speculation about companies

Apple bought

Anobit of Israel, a manufacturer of flash storage technology, for up to U.S. $ 500 million (£ 319m), the Calcalist financial daily reported on Tuesday after nearly a week of speculation on business.

The newspaper said Anobit management was in the process of collection staff to officially announce the acquisition by Apple. There was no announcement at the time of writing on the web site or company. The purchase is the first Apple a company based in Israel.

Flash storage is used in mobile phones and computers to store data: Provides high speed access, but because it has no moving parts, unlike a magnetic hard disk, which is immune to shocks and magnetic fields. But as the SSD - Solid State Drive - are more expensive and are a relatively new technology

Anobit has developed a chip that improves the performance of the flash unit through the signal processing. The chip is already built into Apple devices like the iPhone, the iPhone and the MacBook Air, which some models use SSD instead of rotating hard drives. Last week, Apple said Calcalist was interested in technology Anobit to increase volume and improve memory and performance of their devices. The chip can double the memory capacity of the new MacBooks and iPads.

ZDNet, Robin Haris - who spoke to the former CEO of Abraham Meir Anobit - said the company has developed systems that improve the stability of the flash memory

in 2008 Apple bought a chip design company, PA Semi, and integrated experience of its staff to help design the chips A4 and A5 to follow your iPhone and iPad.

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