by John Chen | Jan 18, 2017 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
While rumors published this week in Japan’s Nikkei news suggested that Toshiba was considering selling a stake of its semiconductor business to WDC, an official company note confirmed a day later that the Japanese conglomerate was considering splitting its memory...
by Mark Geenen | Aug 8, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
In a recent blog, my colleague wrote about the current NAND supply tightness and how it may or may not affect SSD supply and price. SSDs are the “hot” topic and are front and center of everyone’s focus – especially since FMS (Flash Memory Summit) starts this week....
by Mark Geenen | Feb 23, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
HDD unit shipments dipped below 115 million in the fourth calendar quarter of 2015 due to weak PC sales and impact of SSD incursion in notebook computers. For the year, HDD sales were down 16.9% to 469 million units according to TRENDFOCUS’ CQ4 HDD Market Update....
by Jason Lervold | Sep 1, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
TRENDFOCUS recently published its updated Quarterly NAND/SSD report covering the NAND & SSD industries’ performance in CQ2 ’15. In the SSD market, unit shipments increased, despite the fact that a good portion of the volume is tied to a weak notebook PC market....