by Jason Lervold | Jan 5, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
2015 has ended, which means 2016 has started. Happy New Year everyone! One thing we learned in 2015 is that we have not learned from history. Remember the late 1990s to the early 2000s when 2.5” HDD pricing for notebooks pretty much took a nose dive? It was great for...
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 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...
