by Jason Lervold | Oct 31, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
We have all now heard about, and some have experienced, the effects of the NAND shortage over the past few months. These shortages are now being quantified as CQ3 ‘16 SSD shipments are being reported. Early indications point to the channel seeing lower shipment...
by John Chen | Oct 19, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
2016, supposedly the year of virtual reality, or VR, has been relatively quiet. Hype-generating announcements, such as the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, essentially targeted the high-end of VR, offering cutting-edge experiences as long as users had the requisite high-end...
by Mark Geenen | Sep 9, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Yesterday marked the beginning of a new (American) football season in the U.S. And although football is not our national pastime (baseball is), football by all rights is the most regularly watched sporting event in the U.S. The Super Bowl 50 broadcast drew 112 million...
by Jason Lervold | Aug 30, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
With all SSD companies (finally) reporting results for CQ2 ’16, one thing is clear – SSDs are ahead of schedule! It is now very clear that client SSDs going into Notebook PC’s are tracking fantastically, with expected attach rates to be around 34% for 2016, or over...
by Jason Lervold | Aug 29, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
TRENDFOCUS has just released its latest NAND/SSD Quarterly update. In this report, covering CQ2 ’16 results and the revised long-term forecast, all segments, both client and enterprise, saw another quarter where SSDs posted solid growth. In the enterprise SSD market,...
by John Chen | Aug 18, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Capacity enterprise, or nearline HDDs are a mainstay for inexpensive, reliable bulk storage, utilized by nearly all enterprise market segments, including servers, network or external storage and hyperscale or could service providers. For as long as TRENDFOCUS has been...