Winter holidays and especially the Chinese New Year have significantly reduced the number of working days in the first quarter. According to DRAMeXchange analysts units TrendForce calculated that notebook shipments in the second quarter 2016 compared with the first quarter increased by 8.2%, while the supply of SSD for notebooks up to 24%. It is obvious that the penetration of SSDs into the mobile PC is in full swing. According to the forecast, in 2016 about 33% of notebooks will be equipped with SSD.
Also, experts say signs of price stabilization in the drives based on flash memory. Compared with SSD prices in the second quarter, third-quarter average selling price of SSD NAND MLC memory fluctuated upward in the range of 0-0.5%, and the price of SSD storage on NAND TLC decreased within 0-1%. Stabilization of prices means that a significant drop in SSD prices in the third quarter will not be, and therefore, the volume of solid-state disk Procurement pickers PCs also will not grow strongly. According to DRAMeXchange estimates, in the third quarter shipments of client SSD series will grow by only 2-3%.
At the end of 2016, as mentioned above, up to 33% of notebooks will have the storage system on SSD drives. In 2017, the proportion of SSD in laptops promise to reach 44%, and in 2018 - 56%, which means the appearance of SSD in every second mobile PC. Related Products :
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