According to DigiTimes, citing its sources among the producers, the average price of SSDs on the flash memory has reached a new historic low, and if recently it was a dollar per gigabyte, and a year ago, an interesting price is 70-80 cents, it now reached the mark of 35-39 cents. In fact, the volume of 120-128 GB drives are available now, priced at $ 50-55, and 240-256 GB - for $ 100 and the cost continues to drop.
However, neither TIGO Technology, nor Galaxy Microsystems are not real manufacturers - behind them are such well-known designers as Phison Electronics and JMicron Technology respectively. SSDs based on their microcontrollers tend to combine a decent performance, consumer features and a very democratic price.
It should be noted that Kan Seng Pua , the founder and head of Phison (which, by the way, at one time went from a Malaysian student who comes from a simple rural family to engineer and owner of the company with a capitalization of over a billion dollars) , have already stated that in the near future is coming global redistribution of the market SSD-drives, and one who can not take in any significant share of it during this and next year, will be forced to close down its activities in this direction. To improve the competitiveness of manufacturers and developers to NAND-memory controllers now have to join forces with the producers of flash memory NAND. In particular, Phison collaborates with Toshiba and Kingston, as well as actively promoting their products to other companies with an interest in the production of solid-state drives on the market under its own brand.
DigiTimes also industry sources believe that by reducing prices and increasing sales win TSMC, since it is the main contract manufacturer of semiconductor products for many developers controllers, such as the JMicron, Phison, Silicon Motion and Marvell, which currently holds the position as the largest supplier of controllers Flash memory SSD-drives. Related Products :
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