8GB Eee PC shortage due to flash, battery supplies problems

From Digitimes, 28 January 2008 -

Asus is blaming the temporary stoppage of 8GB Eee PC shipments in Taiwan on the tight supply of single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash chips and batteries but stresses that shipments will resume in 1 to 2 weeks.

Some analysts noted however that the relatively high cost of SLC NAND is the major cause of the shipments stoppage. Since SLC NAND flash still carries a relatively high premium over multi-level cell (MLC) chips of the same-density, Asus is rumored to be strategically slowing down its shipments to lower risks.