Again, DigiTimes is the source and, again, we have our doubts. But even DigiTimes couldn’t have missed Apple’s “orders for 100 million 8Gb NAND flash chips mostly with Samsung Electronics, which is likely to cause a supply shortage, according to sources at downstream suppliers.”

While DigiTimes is worried about worldwide NAND inventories, we can’t help but be more interested in the implications to the new iPhone hardware. I’m thinking the 8GB doesn’t quite jive in with the recent iPhone rumors, especially that 32GB iPhone. Now, most likely, with the smaller storage, iPhone is prepping up a low-cost iPhone that could very well be the iPhone Nano. There is no other explanation for that 100 million 8 giggers of NAND storage, but the Nano. Think about it. Of course, 8GB can be put together to make bigger capacities–16GB and 32GB, but we like to think some of it will go to the Nano.

[via digitimes, engadget]