DRAMeXchange prepared the traditional quarterly report on the situation on the market of memory type NAND. In the second quarter of 2013 has maintained the leading position Samsung company, while another South Korean manufacturer - SK Hynix - managed to increase sales and to regain third place.
During this reporting period, revenue from the sale of Samsung flash memory has reached $ 2.18 billion, which corresponds to the share in the amount of 37.8% of the market. The second line holds Toshiba with $ 1.66 billion and a 28.7% , share of SK Hynix measured by the value 14.6%. The remaining members of the Big Five - Intel and Micron - control respectively 11.7% and 7.2% of the market chip NAND.
Analysts say that Samsung has to pay more attention to embedded solutions based on flash memory modules like eMMC and eMCP, as well as products for solid-state drives. Now the company is preparing for the transition to 19-nanometer manufacturing technology, enabling it to cut some costs.
By the way, SK Hynix supplies of eMMC storage type and eMCP allowed it to return the title of the third largest producer of flash memory. According to experts, in the second quarter, sales of SK Hynix rose by 29% compared to the previous reporting period.
At the same time, Micron revenue fell by 4.5%.
The total market size of NAND-memory in terms of money in the second quarter this year reached $ 5.78 billion, which is 11.2% more relative to the first quarter and more than 30% - compared to the same period last year.