by Jason Lervold | Dec 7, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
We are reading more and more about how SSD pricing continues to drop and subsequent attach rates for notebook PCs continue to rise. It has been a wild ride to see how aggressive some pricing has been over the past year, favoring the rise of SSD attach rates with each...
by Jason Lervold | Nov 30, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
TRENDFOCUS recently released its latest quarterly analysis, which showed that 143 exabytes of HDD and SSD capacity shipped in CQ3 on a total of 145 million units. Western Digital and Seagate led the HDD industry, while Samsung, Kingston, and SanDisk topped the SSD...
by John Chen | Nov 18, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
The short answer right now is, “not yet”. However before you conclude that this is an obvious statement, it is a conclusion that is loaded with contextual circumstances. To expect a tablet, which is based on a touch-based interface, to easily replace a mouse and a...
by Mark Geenen | Nov 17, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Notebook production was down in October, but primary because of the factory shutdown due to Chinese national holiday and not because PC demand softened. However, Windows 10 PC system sales have been sluggish to date, and unless there is a miraculous December finish,...
by Jason Lervold | Nov 2, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog, Uncategorized
As a follow up to our blog posted on October 5, 2015, I wanted to comment further on the future of NAND output and how that will effect HDD demand, or not. We all know that NAND bit output continues to increase each year. This is enabled mainly by the development and...
by John Chen | Oct 26, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Tsinghua Holdings, parent company of Unisplendour and Tsinghua Unigroup is also the business affiliate of one of China’s top universities and is state owned. The WDC investment follows Unisplendour’s $2.3 billion, 51% controlling stake of HP’s Chinese server division,...
