Another study in the flash memory market pricing dynamics showed that in the current year is almost gone, the price difference between the mass of 128-GB solid-state drive and 500GB hard drives. More precisely, it will be reduced to $ 3 in OEM. The retail price difference between the drives may be still larger than expected gap of $ 3.
In the first quarter, there was a decrease of wholesale prices on the SSD memory and NAND MLC NAND TLC. Moreover, the cost of solid-state drives in the two-bit NAND-flash was - 10-12%, the reduction in the cost of SSD threebit cell, was by 7-12%.
Thus, the SSD in the first quarter will continue to gradually continue to fall in price. This is facilitated by the high competition in the market of memory manufacture and a seasonal drop in demand. The fall in demand, by the way, leads to a decrease in sales of notebooks and the competition in this market. In the fourth quarter SSD in laptops share held at the level of 25-26%. In the first quarter SSD will have to share already 30-31%.
Also expected to erase the difference in price between the 256 GB SSD and 1TB HDD. Related Products :
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