by John Chen | Dec 20, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog, Uncategorized
2.5” CE HDDs for game consoles hit a record high unit shipment level in CQ3 ’16, ramping up for what appears to be another strong holiday season for console system sales. With mid-cycle upgrades by Microsoft and Sony, along with price cuts to modified original systems...
by Jason Lervold | Dec 7, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog, Uncategorized
TRENDFOCUS just recently concluded another trip through the U.S. and Asia. Once thing is for certain – NAND tightness continues…. And will continue through most of 2017. From a pricing perspective, this means continued higher prices for SSDs in the market. With all...
by John Chen | Dec 5, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog, Uncategorized
As widely rumored, Apple announce a refreshed MacBook Pro line up in October, sporting new industrial designs and introducing a touch-based, contextual screen in place of the normal row of function keys at the top of the keyboard. It marks the first time, I believe,...
by Mark Geenen | Nov 28, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
The strong rebound in HDD demand in CQ3 was great relief for the HDD industry. It has been seven long years, since the HDD industry had a Q-Q growth of this magnitude. More importantly, the strength of the nearline market is what resulted in improved gross margins and...
by Mark Geenen | Nov 21, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
The 2016 Presidential Race will not be forgotten soon. The race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was hotly contested, and at the end it was Trump who was victorious. As soon as Clinton and Trump were officially confirmed as the democratic and republican...
by Jason Lervold | Nov 17, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Sequential unit shipment growth in all SSD segments – client SATA, client PCIe, Enterprise SATA, SAS, and PCIe – resulted in significant increases over the prior quarter. Client modules, targeting the OEM PC market, jumped almost 20% Q-Q, reflecting both a slightly...
