tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67046386963040934252024-02-20T07:55:42.225-08:00WFR Reports: New ReleasesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10038663864819183563noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-37489320663397589002019-04-11T14:02:00.002-07:002019-04-11T14:02:26.732-07:002018 - NAND and DRAM Thanks for the Memories, Now for a Change <div class="MsoNormal">
<i>3D NAND and Memories – Are we in a minor Blip
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<b>MONTEREY, Calif., April 10, 2019
–</b> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">2018 was banner year for Flash, DRAM
and Non Volatile Memory. The large profitability of the segment occluded the
disconnect between realistic demand and an overenthusiastic supply until
reality struck in Q4 last year. The usual utterances of “Blip”, “confined to
the H2” and the like permeated nervous conversations regarding future market
conditions. The further that we “slog” into the continuing market malaise the
facts of double and triple ordering have surfaced once again. Where did all
that “convertible bandwidth” that needed “storage” go? At this point its
recommended that a good read to explain our 20/20 hindsight is Nassim Nicholas
Taleb’s book “The Black Swan – The Impact of the Highly Improbable”. What was
highly improbable 6 months ago is now fact. How did we fail to see this coming?
Not to worry as we’ll explain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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During periods of high
profitability no one in their right mind shakes the boat is a good way to part
company from their employer. Recessionary times bring out the best in travel
budgets for new memory device development teams as they’re generally used to
scrape together a reason to open the door for customer visits. Getting the
customers attention through the promise of the new and the exciting is an age
old tactic that seems to work well for marketing and sometimes sales. Key to
this tactic is having something to talk about when you get to the customers
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Usually these meetings go from
how the visiting company views market conditions and how they see them
improving followed by the new stuff and a high level technology person
explaining the details. This is then followed by action items and goodbyes.
This usual pro-forma business meeting agenda is quickly dissolving as the
market evolution this time around is changing rapidly in context and
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Intel has finally introduced
their Optane systems that use “their” 3D XPoint PCM memory and are on a roll to
release at least one product a week. This is against some sort of rule wherein
you don’t attempt to compete with your customers. Intel isn’t competing with
their customers they are supplying them with technology that no one else can
deliver.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On top of that Intel has kept
their future plans secret though over time small planned leaks are published.
Webfeet research views this strategy as being a completely new version of
Intel’s desire to remain dominant as the lead element within the Server Class
community. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Intel’s competitors are still
taking notes and haven’t divulged how they intend to respond to what appears to
be a well-planned campaign. Yes, everyone complains about the 4 year gestation
of Optane but the fact stands that they are shipping a product that they have
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Webfeet detected this plan
several years ago realizing that Intel might be going for a market tier above
that based on NAND-Flash. One that mimed DDR4 DRAM but at lower speed and
durability but would allow the directly addressable memory space to expand into
the realms needed to satisfy the demands of the In-Memory Compute server
segment. The absurd part of the story is everyone waited patiently for Intel to
announce. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We now see companies becoming
partners of Intel to take advantage of the Optane environment in which they
will also become eligible to use Intel/Altera FPGAs to accelerate application
specific In-Memory algorithms to pursue lucrative high margin vertical
applications while the rest are waiting for Intel to become involved at JEDEC
so they can begin also.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If this is irritating there’s
even more to come, so as the French say, get used to it because that’s the way
it is.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even with the Q4 price decline the
2018 Flash memory market performed much better than expected with revenues above
$60 billion, an increase of 13.2% from 2017.
The NAND Flash market followed suit at 13.8%, while the NOR market grew
sluggishly from 2017 by only 3.1 %. Samsung was again the 2018 revenue market
leader for all NV Memories and NAND, Macronix barely maintained itself as the
NOR Flash leader closely followed by Winbond and Cypress. STMicro reaffirmed the
number one position in EEPROM, Cypress remained the NVRAM market leader, and
Winbond held the serial NOR leadership position. This report discusses long term
memory cycles including the conditions leading to the current market predicament,
are we in a slight correction or a full on memory recession, is the transition
from von Neuman computing (Memory and Storage) moving quickly to Persistent Memory-centric
computing, and how fast are the emerging NVMs growing including XPoint as well
as the emergence of NRAM. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The <u>2018 Non Volatile Memory
Market Shares by Vendor</u> report, CS700MS-2019, includes market shares by
vendor for total Non Volatile Memory, NAND Flash, NOR Flash, serial NOR Flash,
total EEPROM, serial EEPROM, parallel EEPROM, OTP ROM (EPROM and Mask ROM), and
NVRAM (NVSRAM, RTC, MRAM, FeRAM/FeFET, PCM, XPoint, RRAM, NRAM and
Others). Annual revenue forecasts are
provided from 2017-2024 for the EEPROM, OTP ROM, and NVRAM markets. In
addition, the NVSRAM market shares are broken out by vendor for Real Time
Clocks (RTC) and NVSRAM from 2013-2018.
This report, CS700MS-2019, is available for $2.5K and for providers of
the market share data they can obtain the report with a $500 discount. WebFeet Research also has forecast the serial
EEPROM (conservative and aggressive) and the NVSRAM (nvSRAM, RTC) from 2015-2024
by density for revenue, units, and ASPs, and for the serial EEPROM by interface
type. Each of these additional forecasts
are priced at $500 and come in excel format.
This report is vital for the seasoned memory professional as well as the
casual market observer. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>About
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Headquartered in
Monterey, California, WebFeet Research provides business consulting and market
research services in the memory and storage markets, with a focus on
nonvolatile memory, solid state storage technologies and cognitive computing.
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<i>Will the nascent serial NOR market continue its comeback through IoT and Automotive? Who is pushing the edge of Code Storage Flash? Will high density serial NOR coexist with SPI NAND? <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk480288234"></a><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc512328207"><b>MONTEREY, CA., October 29, 2018 –</b> WebFeet Research, Inc., an industry leading Non Volatile Memory and Storage market research firm, releases the first annual report <u>Code Storage Flash Forecast - SPI NAND and Serial NOR Flash SWOT Analysis</u>, which provides the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis of the six top serial NOR and SPI NAND vendors. An extensive forecast of the SLC/SPI NAND and NOR market shows the rise of revenues well beyond the $4.2 Billion shipped in 2017. This report recognizes the emergence of Code Storage Flash that supplies non volatile memory for applications needing mid-range densities (256Mbit-8Gbit). Since 3D NAND is over provisioned for use in IoT sensors and most Edge computing, many of the Code Storage vendors supply (1-8Gbit) SLC and SPI NAND. Over the forecast period, the SPI NAND volumes will overtake SLC NAND since the IoT users will convert from a parallel interface to serial NAND. Mid-high density serial NOR will migrate to SPI NAND for cost reasons, which strengthens the SPI NAND market share. <o:p></o:p></a></div>
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The SWOT covers Micron, Cypress, Macronix, Winbond, Toshiba and GigaDevice who produce 85% of the serial NOR revenue and nearly all the SPI NAND. Besides covering these players, this analysis provides a serial NOR revenue forecast to 2022 by vendor for geographic segmentation. In addition, the vendor serial NOR monthly wafer production by wafer size is calculated from 2014-2020. On the application side, there are serial NOR and SLC/SPI NAND forecasts for revenue, units, and MBs for over 30 end-use applications. In addition, the Serial NOR, Parallel NOR, SPI, and SLC NAND are forecast by revenue and units by density for over twelve end applications. As autonomous vehicles gain prominence, WebFeet provides Flash forecasts for each level of vehicle autonomy and illustrates the Flash usage for each of the automotive systems. Finally, WebFeet forecasts the serial NOR automotive revenue by Flash supplier through 2022. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For the marketing, finance or strategic planning professional this report is essential. The <u>Code Storage Flash Forecast - SPI NAND and Serial NOR Flash SWOT Analysis</u> report, CS575CA-2018, is available for purchase from WebFeet Research in PDF format at $4,995. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Headquartered in Monterey, California, WebFeet Research provides business consulting and market research services in the memory and storage markets, with a focus on nonvolatile memory, solid state storage technologies and cognitive computing. For further information, please contact:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-90368622274339154772017-08-07T11:52:00.001-07:002017-08-07T12:07:50.035-07:00WFR's SSD Market Analysis – NVMe here, NVDIMM coming <div class="MsoNormal">
<i>How are high performance SSDs impacting the Enterprise, Client and Commercial applications? </i></div>
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<i>Who is pushing the edge of SSD and Controllers: intelligent processing of NVMe storage, compression and Object storage? <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>MONTEREY, CA., August 7, 2017 –</b> As the SSD market advances in 2017, the long-anticipated rollout of All Flash Arrays featuring NVMe is finally finding traction at the high end of the enterprise market. Making the transition from SATA and SAS to PCIe and NVMe has been fraught with delays in standardizing the NVMe protocols and the development of an Ethernet- type fabric based on the NVMe protocol (NVMf). Overall, the SSD market has grown significantly in all three markets: enterprise, client and commercial reaching a market volume of $41 billion by 2021. With the adoption of new interfaces like NVMe and the Memory Channel, and embracing emerging media like 3D NAND and Persistent Memory (ReRAM / XPoint) the industry is undergoing a transformation. The old computing storage model is unable to keep up with the amount of data needed to be stored. It needs to merge storage into memory in order to process in real time more complex data, diverse data types and much higher volume of data anticipated through 2021.<o:p></o:p></div>
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WebFeet Research, Inc., an industry leading Non Volatile Memory and Storage market research firm, released the twelfth annual report <u>Solid State Drives (SSD) Markets and Applications 2017</u> report, SS300SSD-2017. This report concentrates on the enterprise market and quantifies the emergence of PCIe, NVMe (U.2 and M.2) and NVDIMM SSDs as well as forecasting the client and commercial markets. It addresses the difficulty of migrating from HDD to SSD and to Hybrid and All Flash storage systems while advancing the ‘intelligent processing’ of memory and storage. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For the executive, marketing, or finance professional this report is vital. When combined with the <u>SSD and Controller SWOT</u> report, SS350SWOT-2017, the reader will have a comprehensive view of the SSD market from the forecast to knowing which companies are providing the latest in SSD and controller offerings. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"The 2017 Webfeet report on the Solid State Drive market is the most comprehensive and insightful report I have seen to-date on this subject. It covers NVMe in all form factors: PCIe, U.2, M.2 as well as defining the NVDIMM memory channel. This timely report will be of significant value to SSD sellers and users alike." <b>Daniel Mahoney, Director, Smart HRS</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Headquartered in Monterey, California, WebFeet Research provides business consulting and market research services in the memory and storage markets, with a focus on nonvolatile memory and solid state storage technologies. For further information, please contact:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-52962746396913982912017-08-07T11:07:00.001-07:002017-08-07T12:07:28.077-07:00The Future of Non Volatile Memory in Cognitive Computing <div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The confluence of Big Data, IoT, Real-Time Analytics and Cognitive Computing are forcing a complete rethinking of the hardware computing baseline from the ground up. Pressure to stay current with ever larger investments in cloud and enterprise hardware has vendors second guessing whether they will be overcome, or more appropriately engulfed by tomorrow’s architectural developments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">At the base of this stack is the storage crossover from hard disk drives to solid state drives. This change alone decreased latency of data available for processor execution by 100 times. Standardizing protocols such as NVMe have expedited the removal of a good deal of the latency delaying software stack. XPoint memory from Intel/Micron decreases latency again by 10 to 100 times. The idea of loading entire databases into the Memory Channel DRAM DIMMs to support In-Memory and Real-Time Analytics requires the Dynamic RAM memory to be backed up with nonvolatile memory to insure against loss of data during a power outage incident (NVDIMMs). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">New NVDIMM memory designs are in progress that not only increase the backup density but also expand the nonvolatile memory to 4 to 16 times beyond the DRAM capacity for low latency system use. The resulting “expanded memory space” NVDIMM contain an on-board controller that shadows the DRAM memory access, bursting data from a prefetch buffer when a DRAM main memory miss is registered thus bringing ever more low latency memory capacity to the server’s multi-core processors at reduced cost. In short, the conquest of latency and depth of the memory channel are seen as major accelerators for tomorrows Enterprise and Cloud servers for In-Memory Database and Real-Time Analytics.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The introduction of the NVMe-oF standard protocol for All-Flash-Arrays is accelerating their development and market acceptance - this fulfills the need for low latency storage closely coupled to the In-Memory NVDIMM memory arrays. The commercial availability of XPoint devices from Micron Technology (QuantX) are currently under consideration for future All-XPoint-Arrays – a new category offering a level of near DRAM performance for system access to multi-terabyte memory arrays. WebFeet’s demand forecast expects these arrays to remain in short supply for an extended period through the year 2020. A wave of new product announcements is expected in this category through 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The list becomes less clear when it comes to implementing Cognitive Computing. The greatly reduced average latency achieved through enlarging the size of both DRAM and nonvolatile memory on NVDIMMs appears sufficient for the time being. A standing issue with the expanded Memory Channel is how it will impact the capability of running AI applications. System partitions already surround server based applications of which Nvidia’s DGX-1 and Googles TPU TensorFlow Pods are representative. The implication is that these lead AI application engines are being run as Application Servers and have yet to be woven into the hyperscale space. Intel’s Xeon Phi based servers are intended to be the first to integrate closely coupled MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) with enlarged persistent memory channels (NVDIMMs). The potential of Intel’s solution remains undelivered at this writing – it does, however, bring a greater range of AI applications to a wider installed base (upgrade market). What is still unsettling to many is the fact that there is currently no real candidate methodology for the inclusion of AI technology into hyperscale systems. Building AI servers is one solution but WebFeet’s analysis indicates that it is still a “bag on the side” instead of being an integral part of a massively parallel compute model. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">From a computing architectural perspective, WebFeet recognizes that the entire eco-system (sensors, gateways, edge, and cloud/data center) are required to run at, or very near to Real-Time to remain competitive. Software layers, large memory, virtual loading of processors, solid state storage and fast interconnect enable today's von Neumann computing databases. Unfortunately, the architecture is rapidly becoming unable to process the ever-increasing data volumes. Lead research now recognizes that change must also begin with the agents of source data. The use of pattern processing at the endpoints not only improves the quality of the data but also reduces the quantity of information exchange necessary to maintain autonomy and integration into the Internet of Things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Current AI edge solutions run the gamut from In-Memory to a USB stick covering a wide range of capabilities and power requirements. WebFeet views this market as being segmented into multiple categories, which range from being power limited (mobile) to rack mounted hyperscale Cloud and Enterprise application servers. The need to reduce power by orders of magnitude while increasing the device level cognitive span represents a major industry challenge to the implementation of neuromorphic equipped devices and systems. A forward solution path involving persistent resistive memory and persistent gate level technologies is viewed by WebFeet Research as having a high probability of providing the technology base necessary to achieve low cost, low power and the high availability required for low end and the mid-range segments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Cognitive Computing systems that mimic the way the human brain works are thought by many to still be in the early stages of development. An interesting scenario has developed which may completely shatter this attitude. Several low-profile, long term research efforts underway for well over a decade are now nearing their market entry milestones. These systems are based on principles of the human neocortex and represent the first semiconductor devices able to perform near real-time learning and pattern identification on heterogeneous data streams. Webfeet forecasts that these market entries will radically change the complexion of what now is considered to be the High Performance Cognitive Computing market within the next several years. These entries will not only spawn the ability to process vast amounts of heterogeneous data but will, in addition, be able to attain predictive, temporal time sequenced data event extraction (something only dreamed of at present) again, all within the next several years. WebFeet projects this same technology will produce a major revision in how the semiconductor market responds to Artificial Intelligence, especially where the von Neumann architecture intersects the memory-like architecture of pattern computing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">WebFeet provides focused discussions and studies on the trends, technical requirements, and market sizing for automotive, IoT, Edge: Mobile, Cloud/Enterprise and other emerging applications. We also include analyses and forecasts on the viability and when the emerging NVM technologies will reach commercial production and for which application. Finally, WebFeet has an In-Memory Database Computing Research Service that explores the transition from von Neumann computing (symbol) to Cognitive Computing (pattern) and Artificial Intelligence with its impact on semiconductors, especially memory and logic. Since, these are on-going topics we would like to engage in bi-monthly forum to provide you with discussions on our written reports, debriefings from trade shows, company releases and targeted research.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-25226232234188528452017-03-29T16:14:00.000-07:002017-03-29T16:14:38.546-07:00Memory Shortages bode well for DRAM, NAND and NOR Vendors in 2017 <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Flash Memory Components 2016 Market Revenues Improved to $37B, 3D NAND
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Monterey, CA - March 29, 2017 – Not since 2000, have the
memory suppliers been in an undersupply situation since 2H 2016 is increasing
memory prices for a number of reasons. NAND
vendors are producing 2D (planar) NAND at full capacity, while concurrently
making the costly shift in production to 3D NAND. DRAM has been so hot that the
Big Three (Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron) are shrinking their lithography below
1x and 1y, while maintaining their production at capacity. Other foundries,
like the memory manufacturers, are also running at capacity, trying to maintain
balance with IoT, M-2-M, mobile and computing demands. Even the NOR Flash
market saw a reversal of 15+ years of market declines has been caught in the
allocation/shortage scenario. Yet, with all this current production building
additional capacity takes time and has been fraught with technology hurdles
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Although the NOR market is around 5% of NAND, NOR’s
challenges represent a microcosm of the larger Flash and memory markets. With the stronger demand for SoC (System on
Chip) to satisfy the IoT and edge terminal requirements, foundries and ODMs are
shifting their wafer mix away from standalone memories. These SoCs are also
being built at lithography nodes below 40nm, where most embedded NOR Flash
cannot be built. Consequently, these SoCs will need KGD and standalone serial
NOR components at 512Kbit-256Mbit densities and larger to fulfill the IoT
system memory requirements. In China, GigaDevice who supplies serial NOR is
caught in a wafer allocation squeeze in not getting enough serial Flash wafers from
their foundry who is making more SoCs (that need serial NOR). Winbond who makes
both DRAM and NOR/NAND has been riding the higher price DRAM wave and has
limited any additional wafer allocations to NOR. Micron has been rumored to
have shut down NOR production at their Singapore fab in favor of NAND, which
removes some NOR wafer capacity. Cypress the NOR market leader is gradually
moving their emphasis from commodity standalone NOR to a IoT systems memory
module especially for the automotive market.
Finally, Macronix has regained more NOR market presence in allocating
more NOR wafer production is still facing long lead times since demand is ever
increasing on the constrained industry supply. The net effect is NOR and other
memory prices are increasing with supply constraints and vendors are on
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In consolidating its annual results of each Flash memory
vendor’s shipments, WebFeet Research found the 2016 Flash memory market to be $36.8
billion, an increase of 10% from 2015. A
substantial increase in 2016 revenues came from the NAND Flash market with a 10.7%
growth rate, while the NOR market contracted flatly from 2015 by only -1.8 %. Samsung
was the perennial 2016 revenue market leader for all NV Memories and NAND, Cypress
(Spansion) established itself as the NOR Flash and the NVRAM market leader, while
Macronix regained the serial NOR leadership position. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The <u>2016 Non Volatile Memory Market Shares by Vendor</u> report
discusses the impact of the mergers and acquisitions on the memory market, qualifies
the migration of planar to 3D NAND, quantifies how fast the emerging NVM are
growing including STT-MRAM and XPoint as well as the reemergence of RRAM and NRAM,
and presents two forecasts for serial EEPROM showing the impact (slow initial
adoption) of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its aggressive scenario. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This <u>2016 Non Volatile Memory Market Shares by Vendor</u>
report, CS700MS-2017, includes market shares by vendor for total Non Volatile
Memory, NAND Flash, NOR Flash, serial NOR Flash, total EEPROM, serial EEPROM,
parallel EEPROM, OTP ROM (EPROM and Mask ROM), and NVRAM (NVSRAM, RTC, MRAM,
FeRAM, PCM, XPoint, RRAM, NRAM and Others).
Annual revenue forecasts are provided from 2015-2022 for the EEPROM, OTP
ROM, and NVRAM markets. In addition, the NVSRAM market shares are broken out by
vendor for Real Time Clocks (RTC) and NVSRAM from 2011-2016. This report, CS700MS-2017, is available for
$2.5K and for providers of the market share data they can obtain the report
with a $500 discount. WebFeet Research also
has forecast the serial EEPROM (conservative and aggressive) and the NVSRAM
(nvSRAM, RTC) from 2014-2022 by density for revenue, units, and ASPs, and for
the serial EEPROM by interface type.
Each of these additional forecasts are priced at $500 and come in excel
format. <o:p></o:p></div>
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WebFeet Research, located in Monterey, California, provides business
consulting and market research services in the memory and storage markets, with
emphasis on flash memory components, EFDs, SSDs, Persistent Memory and In-Memory
Computing/Cognitive Computing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Contact: WebFeet
Research at 831-869-8274 or <u>alan.</u><a href="mailto:niebel@web-feetresearch.com"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">niebel@web-feetresearch.com</span></a>
or <a href="http://www.webfeetresearch.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">www.WebFeetresearch.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></div>
Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-25812007004712452312017-02-14T14:13:00.001-08:002017-02-14T14:13:52.261-08:00TBDTest BlogAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10038663864819183563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-13471513685748650372017-01-16T08:25:00.000-08:002017-02-09T15:50:20.016-08:00WFR's New SSD Market Analysis – NVMe now, NVDIMM coming <div class="MsoNormal">
<i>How are high performance SSDs impacting the
Enterprise, Client and Commercial applications? </i></div>
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<i>Who is pushing the edge of SSD and Controllers:
intelligent processing of NVMe storage, compression and Object storage? <o:p></o:p></i><br />
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<b>MONTEREY,
CA., January 16, 2017 –</b> As
the SSD market enters 2017, the long-anticipated rollout of All Flash Arrays
featuring NVMe is finally finding traction at the high end of the enterprise
market. Making the transition from SATA and SAS to PCIe and NVMe has been fraught
with delays in standardizing the NVMe protocols and the development of an
Ethernet- type fabric based on the NVMe protocol (NVMf). Overall, the SSD market has grown
significantly in all three markets: enterprise, client and commercial reaching
a market volume of $41 billion by 2021. With the adoption of new interfaces
like NVMe and the Memory Channel, and embracing emerging media like 3D NAND and
Persistent Memory (ReRAM / XPoint) the industry is undergoing a transformation.
The old computing storage model is unable to keep up with the amount of data
needed to be stored. It needs to merge storage into memory in order to process
in real time more complex data, diverse data types and much higher volume of
data anticipated through 2021.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even though
NAND-Flash based solid-state-disk drives perform at several orders of magnitude
higher than hard-disk-drives they suffer from the same non-deterministic
inadequacies as compared to solutions based on XPoint memory. Flash memory
based SSDs suffer the indeterminate delay inserted by the Flash Translation
Layer in its production of the of physical block addresses. This is one reason
that All-Flash-Array architects like Pure Storage desire additional physical
control at the Flash Translation Layer. Additional storage system functions
such as deduplication, compression, error coding, power-on fill, data recovery ops,
checkpointing, and scrubbing are further accelerated by this approach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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WebFeet
Research, Inc., an industry leading Non Volatile Memory and Storage market
research firm, released the twelfth annual report <u>Solid State Drives (SSD)
Markets and Applications 2017</u> report, SS300SSD-2017. This report concentrates
on the enterprise market with the emergence of PCIe, NVMe (U.2 and M.2) and NVDIMM
SSDs as well as quantifying the client and commercial markets. It addresses the difficulty of migrating from
HDD to SSD and to Hybrid and All Flash storage systems while advancing the
‘intelligent processing’ of memory and storage. <o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">For the executive, marketing, or finance
professional this report is vital. When combined with the <u>SSD and Controller
SWOT</u> report, SS350SWOT-2016, the reader will have a comprehensive view of
the SSD market from the forecast to knowing which companies are providing the
latest in SSD and controller offerings. </span><br />
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<b>About WebFeet Research</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Headquartered in
Monterey, California, WebFeet Research provides business consulting and market
research services in the memory and storage markets, with a focus on
nonvolatile memory and solid state storage technologies. For further
information, please contact:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alan Niebel<o:p></o:p></div>
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WebFeet Research,
Inc<o:p></o:p></div>
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w3.webfeetresearch.com<o:p></o:p></div>
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alan.niebel@web-feetresearch.com<o:p></o:p></div>
Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-25889972742462538092016-10-31T08:56:00.000-07:002016-10-31T08:56:15.654-07:00WFR's New SSD and Controller SWOT Analysis – Is Speed Enough? <div class="MsoNormal">
<i>Who is making high performance SSDs for the Client,
Enterprise and Commercial applications? Who
is pushing the edge of third party Controllers: intelligent processing of NVMe storage,
compression and Object storage? <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>MONTEREY,
CA., October 31, 2016 –</b> WebFeet
Research, Inc., an industry leading Non Volatile Memory and Storage market
research firm, introduces the sixth annual report <u>SSD SWOT Analysis and
Company Profile</u>, which provides the
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis of 60+
standard form factor SSD vendors and 30+ third party Controller manufacturers.
This report recognizes the difficulty of knowing which SSD and controller storage
companies are active in the market, what products and services do they offer
and who is advancing the ‘intelligent processing’ of memory and storage. This timely
update also lists the major vendors in hardware: Enterprise Solutions and All
Flash Arrays, and through software/firmware: Business Intelligence and
Analytics, Data Analytics, In-Memory Compute, Object Storage and Distributed
File Systems, and NVMf Fabrics. <br />
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Besides being
a veritable who’s who covering the players in each market, this analysis
provides more clarity in highlighting how the SSD and controllers are evolving
towards the merging of memory and hot storage. The hardware side of the SSDs shows
the host interface moving from SATA and SAS to PCIe/NVMe and into the Memory
channel. On the controller side are advances in handling or processing large
data sets, reducing latency, improving LDPC and ECC, applying real time
compression, enabling object storage, and enhancing security. Storage Class
Memory (SCM) along with the advent of Data Centric Computing has motivated lead
vendors like CNEX, NGD Systems and Symbolic IO to optimize the features of SCM
or counter with their unique approach. </div>
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For
marketing, finance or strategic planning professionals this report is
essential. The <u>SSD and Controller SWOT</u> report, SS350SWOT-2016, is
available for purchase from WebFeet Research in electronic excel format at $3,995.
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<b>About WebFeet Research</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Headquartered in
Monterey, California, WebFeet Research provides business consulting and market
research services in the memory and storage markets, with a focus on
nonvolatile memory and solid state storage technologies.</span></div>
Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-11802320212612172592016-06-20T17:50:00.003-07:002016-06-20T17:50:43.274-07:00WebFeet Research Heralds 2015 as Awakening of Life beyond NAND and DRAM <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i>Flash Memory Components Market Revenues Improved to $33B, 3D XPoint
Announced<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Monterey, CA - June 20, 2016 – After reaching a midyear
turning point WebFeet Research reflects on the salient 2015 announcements
impacting the Non Volatile Memory market and the computing industry. Intel and Micron revealed 3D XPoint memory heralding
a sea change in computing memory architecture that will complement then replace
DRAM and ‘high performance’ NAND. In consolidating its annual results of each
Flash memory vendor’s shipments, WebFeet Research found the 2015 Flash memory
market to be $33.4 billion, an increase of 8.2% from 2014. A substantial increase in 2015 revenues came
from the NAND Flash market at 10.6%, while the NOR market contracted dramatically
from 2014 by -13.7 %. Samsung was again the 2015 revenue market leader for all
NV Memories and NAND, Cypress (Spansion) established itself as the NOR Flash
and the NVRAM market leader, and Winbond maintained the serial NOR leadership
position. This report discusses the impact of the mergers and acquisitions (SanDisk
and ISSI) on the memory market, qualifies the migration of planar to 3D NAND,
quantifies how fast the emerging NVM are growing including XPoint as well as
the reemergence of NRAM, and presents two forecasts for serial EEPROM showing
the impact (slow initial adoption) of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its
aggressive scenario. </div>
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The <u>2015 Non Volatile Memory Market Shares by Vendor</u>
report, CS700MS-2016, includes market shares by vendor for total Non Volatile
Memory, NAND Flash, NOR Flash, serial NOR Flash, total EEPROM, serial EEPROM,
parallel EEPROM, OTP ROM (EPROM and Mask ROM), and NVRAM (NVSRAM, RTC, MRAM,
FeRAM, PCM, XPoint, RRAM, NRAM and Others).
Annual revenue forecasts are provided from 2014-2021 for the EEPROM, OTP
ROM, and NVRAM markets. In addition, the NVSRAM market shares are broken out by
vendor for Real Time Clocks (RTC) and NVSRAM from 2010-2015. This report, CS700MS-2016, is available for
$2.5K and for providers of the market share data they can obtain the report
with a $500 discount. WebFeet Research also
has forecast the serial EEPROM (conservative and aggressive) and the NVSRAM
(nvSRAM, RTC) from 2013-2021 by density for revenue, units, and ASPs, and for
the serial EEPROM by interface type.
Each of these additional forecasts are priced at $500 and come in excel
format. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">WebFeet
Research, located in Monterey, California, provides business consulting and market
research services in the memory and storage markets, with emphasis on flash
memory components, flash cards, EFDs, SSDs, and In-Memory Computing. </span>Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-6577168947286245102016-03-28T10:16:00.000-07:002017-02-14T14:01:03.669-08:00WFR's New Applications Report Addresses - XPoint Impacts on Flash and Memory Applications <div class="MsoNormal">
<i>How will XPoint Memory improve the
intelligent processing of the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data and Enterprise
SSDs? How will it impact Flash and DRAM consumption in 2016 and beyond?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">MONTEREY,
CA., March 28, 2016</span> –</b> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">WebFeet
Research, Inc. recognizes the magnitude and impact of the 3D XPoint memory progressively
adding intelligence to memory and storage as well as heralding in a new cognitive
computing paradigm. There has been a bit of confusion about when XPoint will be
available and with which applications. The fourteenth annual report <u>Flash
and XPoint Memory Applications and Markets</u>, <b>(CS100XFA-2016) </b>provides some clarity to the timing and
markets XPoint will address as well as showing the intelligence
evolution theme weaving through NOR, NAND and XPoint. This major update provides
an integrated memory/storage end-use market segmentation in the consumer,
mobile and computing markets and forecasts the NOR, NAND, 3D NAND and XPoint
usage in over 175 end-use applications. Some
of the new applications forecast are; when server-side XPoint DIMMs will
replace NVDIMMs, the rise of wearable computing, Connected Home IoT and autonomous
cars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the Flash/NVM
technology evolves adding intelligence so did its markets. Beginning with basic
media file storage in consumer applications NAND grew in usage. Mobile storage
in Smart phones needs more intelligent Flash in performing execute-in-place with
more reliable storage. Computing applications require the utmost performance
from the block addressable NAND and XPoint as byte persistent SCM merges
working data with hot storage to enable high capacity in-memory computing.
Finally, the lost step-child NOR should see a mild rebound with high speed
twin-Quad XTRM or HyperFlash Serial NOR initiating the connection for the
Internet of Things in over 30 billion Intelligent Connected devices in 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the Flash
and XPoint Memory Applications and Markets forecast, WebFeet Research provides
a density breakout by revenue, units, and Mbits/Gbits for NAND (SLC, MLC, TLC, eMLC,
SPI, Combo (MCP) NAND); 3D NAND (MLC, TLC); NOR, MLC NOR, serial NOR, Combo NOR
and serial Combo NOR; and XPoint Memory.
The forecast period includes 2013-2015 historical and 2016-2020
projections. A special section breaks out
the serial NOR by over 30 applications including the major use of quad/plus IO serial
NOR components. In addition, the compute
market examines the use of Flash cache, Server-side SSDs and storage SSDs for
the client and cloud/datacenter/enterprise end-use markets. GigaByte
consumption is also forecast by memory/storage end-use market and shows when
computing becomes the Flash consumption market share leader. Finally, the 2015 Flash Market Shares by
Vendor is included showing how the players have changed position based on
acquisitions and pricing to reach $31.3 billion in NAND, $2.1 billion in NOR
and for a total of $33.4 billion in total Flash.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Flash and XPoint Memory Applications and
Markets: 2013-2020 report, CS100XFA-2016, (348 pages) is available for
purchase from WebFeet Research in electronic and hard copy at $5,950. </span></div>
Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-67397416391942191062015-04-13T11:40:00.000-07:002017-01-19T12:47:57.815-08:00Solid State Drives (SSD) Company Profiles and SWOT Analysis<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>MONTEREY, CA., April 13, 2015 – </b>Web-Feet Research, Inc. releases its Solid State Drives
(SSD) Company Profiles and SWOT Analysis Report SS350SWT-2015. The SSD company profiles and SWOT analysis provides a database profile of 140+ SSD vendors and 25+ controller/firmware companies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This
publication covers over 60+ notable companies with SWOT analysis along with product
summaries and other relevant information positioning these companies with each other. The tool utilizes
the excel filter capability to sort on a specific company (s) and/or by market segment to assist users in company analysis, strategic planning and provide
additional insights on the SSD market.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10038663864819183563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-7007702756043282792015-01-04T15:38:00.000-08:002015-01-04T15:38:26.430-08:00WebFeet Research releases its 2015 Solid State Storage (SSS) Forecast for the Commercial/Industrial Markets and Applications <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><i>How is SSS technology transforming the Commercial/Industrial segments? What are the six sub-markets in this Commercial segment? How are their applications using SSS in terms of form factors, interface, and performance for SSDs as well as Embedded Flash Drives (EFD) and Flash Cards? </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">MONTEREY, CA., January 4, 2015 – WebFeet Research, Inc. has analyzed the SSD market from early 2000 tracking this evolving technology for use in the enterprise, client and commercial storage industry segments. This 2015 report on Solid State Storage (SSS) for the Commercial / Industrial Markets and Applications, (SS375ESSS-2015), has WebFeet Research (WFR) solely concentrating on the commercial / industrial storage market. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">The commercial / industrial segment is a slow changing segment with highly specialized designs that will be employed for long periods compared to the client segment. Although, this has resulted in lower volumes and slower growth, new opportunities especially in the Internet of Things (IoT) that are being created from emerging and existing applications (automotive, medical, telecommunications, industrial/retail, consumer/connected home, and aerospace/military) that are rapidly transforming this market segment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Traditionally, other storage options have been heavily utilized in this segment such as Embedded Flash Drives (eMMC, UFS, iNAND) and Compact Flash, which are used for its lower cost, performance, lower capacity requirements and board level integration for special purpose designs. SSD adoption rates are now increasing in this segment as SSD prices continue to decline. This is providing a bright spot for SSD’s particularly SSD modules for their small form factors and performance attributes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">SSDs in industrial and embedded applications must meet special environmental conditions to operate reliably. This segment has a wide range of applications covering; agriculture, power, transportation, auto, steel, chemical, oil, coal, and nuclear, to name a few. In each of these industries, reliable storage is needed for data acquisition, measurements, and control. Each of these industries have their unique set of environmental requirements. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Within each of the six commercial sub-markets: Networking/Telecom, Connected Home, Automotive, Industrial, Medical, and Avionics/Aerospace/Military the forecast of SSDs, Embedded Flash Drives (EFD), and Flash Cards are quantified for over 40 end-use applications. This forecast provides a separate breakout for SSDs by form factor including modules and another section for EFDs and Flash Cards by form factor for units and average capacity and revenue. Geographic splits are also produced for the six sub-market segments for the Americas, EMEA, and AsiaPac.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">The report, SS375ESSD-2015 is available through Web-Feet Research in electronic spreadsheet format. </span></span></div>
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Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-74304783498461093462014-12-04T09:38:00.001-08:002014-12-04T09:38:39.316-08:00Web-Feet Research Forecasts IoT to Big Data to 3D in Thirteenth Annual Flash Memory Applications and Markets Report <div class="MsoNormal">
<i>How will Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data
and 3D NAND SSDs impact Flash consumption in 2015 and beyond?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>MONTEREY, CA., December 3, 2014 – </b>Web-Feet Research,
Inc. provides an extensive market segmentation in its thirteenth annual report
on<b> </b>Flash Memory Applications and Markets, <b>(CS100FA-2014).</b> This major
update provides an integrated memory/storage end-use market segmentation in the
consumer, mobile and computing markets and forecasts the NAND and NOR usage in
over 170 end-use applications. Some of
the new applications forecast the rise of wearable computing as found in the AppleWatch
or Smart Watch, IoT and 3D NAND SSDs. As the NAND technology evolved so did its
markets. Beginning with basic media file storage in consumer applications the
NAND grew in usage. Mobile storage in Smart phones needs more sophisticated
Flash in performing execute-in-place and more reliable storage. Computing requires
the utmost performance from the NAND, while SSDs and caching like the
ULLtraDIMM gain acceptance as they provide more reliability and the highest performance. NOR should see a mild rebound with high speed
twin-Quad or HyperFlash Serial NOR initiating the connection for the Internet
of Things in over 22 billion Intelligent Connected devices in 2019.</div>
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In the Flash Memory Applications and Markets forecast,
Web-Feet Research provides a density breakout by revenue, units, and Mbits for
SLC NAND, 2-bits per cell NAND, 3-bits/cell and enterprise 2-bits/cell NAND, SPI
NAND, Combo (MCP) NAND and 3D NAND; NOR, MLC NOR, serial NOR, Combo NOR and
serial Combo NOR; and Phase Change Memory.
The forecast period includes 2012 and 2013 historical and 2014-2019
projections. A special section breaks out
the serial NOR by over 30 applications including the major use of quad/plus IO serial
NOR components. In addition, the compute
market examines the use of Flash cache, Server-side SSDs and SSDs for the
client, commercial, and enterprise end-use markets. The GB consumption is also forecast by
memory/storage end-use market and shows when computing becomes the Flash
consumption market share leader. Finally,
the 2013 Flash Market Shares by Vendor is included showing how the players have
changed position based on acquisitions and improved pricing to reach $30.9
billion in total Flash and $28.1 billion in NAND. </div>
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The Flash Memory Applications and Markets: 2012-2019
report, CS100FA-2014, (321 pages) is available for purchase from WebFeet
Research in electronic and hard copy at $5.95 K. </div>
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<b>About WebFeet Research</b> <o:p></o:p></div>
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Headquartered in
Monterey, California, WebFeet Research provides business consulting and market
research services in the memory and storage markets, with a focus on
nonvolatile memory and solid state storage technologies. For further
information, please contact:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-83776484472938216182014-08-13T11:00:00.001-07:002014-08-13T11:00:23.623-07:00Embedded Flash Drive, eMMC/UFS Storage Applications Accelerate Market Growth <div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Mid Density NOR, Serial NOR, and SPI
- SLC NAND Offer Growth Tradeoffs<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%;">MONTEREY, CA.,</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> July 31, 2014 -</span></b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> WebFeet Research, Inc. has released its revised
annual report on the <u>Embedded Flash Drives, eMMC/UFS and SPI-SLC NAND: 2012-2019</u>
(<b>SS450EFD-2014). </b>The main theme of the forecast covers Embedded Flash Drives (EFD) eMMC and UFS that
provide internal storage functions in mobile, consumer and some compute
applications. Although EFDs tend to
provide NAND solutions at 2GBs and above, another storage theme explores the
mid-density 256Mbit to 8Gbit battle between NOR, Serial NOR, SLC NAND and SPI
NAND. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">EFDs are the non-removable Flash storage positioned between Flash
cards, found in many of these same applications as SSDs. As EFDs evolved mainly through versions of
eMMC, it became apparent that as SSDs were able to improve their SATA interface
speed, mobile eMMC EFD storage lagged far behind. In order for the EFD to evolve, a new
interface was needed that would take on many controller features found in
serial high speed SSDs and still keep its mobile low power budget. UFS at 6Gbps+ provides a
better user experience, high speed serial interface PC sync with fast response,
high efficiency, and low latency of a SSD combined with the small form factor
and low power usage of a mobile device. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This EFD report provides an in-depth analysis of the market and
applications for internal Flash storage sub-systems, including the emNAND
(embedded NAND components), the EFDs along with their use characteristics of
the Flash component technologies and eMMC/UFS.
emNAND is found in over thirty end applications, which includes twenty
two applications that use EFDs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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which features of the four Flash memories: NOR, serial NOR, SLC and SPI NAND best
suit the twenty different mid-density applications. Component unit forecasts by
each density (256Mb – 8Gb) and each application are discussed from 2014-2019,
which has never been presented before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The EFD (UFS) market revenue growth is expected to reach $18.8B in
2019. In support of these numbers, EFD
unit and revenue growth will be driven heavily by mobile Smart and Smart Entry
handsets, Tablets, Portable Media Players, Digital Camcorders, Wearables (IoT),
automotive and others along with the adoption of Flash cache in notebook and
desktop PCs. NAND Flash technology:
SLC, MLC, and 3-bit per cell will each be used for the design-in for these different
applications based on the NAND use characteristics matched to each
applications’ usage needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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profiled in the full report, <b>SS450EFD-2014</b>,
144 pages. In addition, the report is segmented
into the definition, development, and market applications of EFD Storage. The next sections focus on the market
forecasts by application for EFDs and their respective NAND components, the EFD
profiles and a summary of EFDs by storage capacity for revenue, units, ASPs,
and MBs. Finally, eMMC and UFS after 2016, the main subset of EFD, will be
forecast by its NAND revenue and units by twenty+ applications and by vendor
market share. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">This report, </span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">SS450EFD-2014 </span></b></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">is indispensible<b> </b>for any company involved with the
Flash storage market and especially eMMC/UFS or Mid-Density Flash. It is available through Web-Feet Research in
electronic and hard copy. For further information, to obtain the EFD
report, please contact: Alan Niebel (alan.niebel@web-feetresearch.com) at
831.373.1985 </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span>Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-84759961691720770992014-04-08T13:18:00.002-07:002014-04-08T13:18:37.786-07:00WebFeet Research finds 2013 NAND Flash Memory Components Market Revenues Improved to $28B<div class="MsoNormal">
Monterey, CA - April 8, 2014 – After consolidating its
annual results of each Flash memory vendor’s quarterly shipments, WebFeet
Research found the 2013 Flash memory market to be $30.8 billion, an increase of
10.5% from 2012. A substantial increase
in 2013 revenues came from the NAND Flash market, while the NOR market ($2.75
billion) contracted dramatically from 2012. Samsung was once again the 2013 revenue
market leader for all NV Memories and NAND, Micron remained the NOR market
leader, and Winbond claims the serial NOR leadership position. This report
discusses the impact of the SanDisk – SK Hynix lawsuit on the memory market,
how the migration to 3D NAND is progressing, how fast are the emerging NVM
growing, and presents two forecasts for serial EEPROM showing the impact of the
Internet of Things (IoT) in its aggressive scenario. </div>
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WebFeet Research utilizes its Flash Memory Reporting
Association to consolidate the reported shipments from the seventeen Flash
manufacturers. Both the Toshiba and
SanDisk, Micron and Intel shipments are calculated separately from each other
and do not include any portion of the other’s component revenues. In this consolidation, the Flash memory component
shipments are segmented by NOR, serial NOR, MLC NOR, Combo NOR, and by SLC NAND,
MLC NAND, eMLC NAND, TLC NAND, and Combo NAND for all capacities: 512Kbit-128Gbits
for standalone components and 8Mbit – 64Gbit for the Combo (Flash + xRAM) or
MCP devices. </div>
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The <u>2013 Non Volatile Memory Market Shares by Vendor</u>
report, CS700MS-2014, includes market shares by vendor for total Non Volatile
Memory, NAND Flash, NOR Flash, serial NOR Flash, total EEPROM, serial EEPROM,
parallel EEPROM, OTP ROM (EPROM and Mask ROM), and NVRAM (BBSRAM, NVSRAM, RTC,
MRAM, FeRAM, PCM, RRAM and Others).
Annual revenue forecasts are provided from 2012-2019 for the EEPROM, OTP
ROM, and NVRAM markets. In addition, the NVSRAM market shares are broken out by
vendor for Real Time Clocks (RTC) and NVSRAM from 2008-2013. This report, CS700MS-2014, is available for
$2.5K and for providers of the market share data they can obtain the report
with a $500 discount. WebFeet Research also
has forecast the serial EEPROM (conservative and aggressive) and the NVSRAM
(BBSRAM/nvSRAM, RTC) from 2011-2019 by density for revenue, units, and ASPs,
and for the serial EEPROM by interface type.
Each of these additional forecasts are priced at $500 and come in excel
format. </div>
Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-47534966737426897722013-11-19T17:14:00.002-08:002013-11-19T17:14:36.230-08:00embedded Flash MCU Market generates highest share - Internet of Things <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">embedded Flash MCU Market generates
highest share - Internet of Things <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">emFlash continues high acceptance in automotive, consumer/medical,
and industrial markets</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b>MONTEREY, CA, November 19, 2013– </b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Web-Feet
Research, Inc. has released its annual report on</span><b> </b>em<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Flash
Memory Markets: 2011-2018, <b>(EFS400FA-2013).</b> Embedded memory technologies have become the main
enabler for Internet of Things (IoT) systems requiring high performance, lowest
power consumption, very small physical real estate, as well as mobility. Specifically, embedded Flash (emFlash) and
embedded nonvolatile memories (emNVM) command the highest volume in IoT applications such as automotive, touch
controllers, Smart grids and connected M2M compared to serial EEPROM and serial
Flash components</span>. <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">emFlash is used in diverse
markets and is currently integrated in a wide range of semiconductor
components, both microcontrollers (4 bit, 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit) and DSP. Only a small but growing portion, of the
programmable logic (gate arrays, standard cells and field programmable logic
including some SoC) is currently equipped with emFlash.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The emFlash Memory forecast is
broken out into 40+ end-use applications, which shows the computer market will
rebound with the fastest growth through the forecast period (to 2018) followed
by the consumer, communications, transportation and industrial markets. The consumer market will generate the most
emFlash revenue (the dollar amount of Flash embedded in the MCU die) over $2.88
billion by 2018. Web-Feet forecast the
revenue and MB size of the emFlash in these 40+ end-use applications within
microcontrollers, DSPs and logic. This
data is also broken out by geographical region and by wafer demand. In
addition, over sixty three companies were profiled in terms of their
involvement in the emFlash/emNVM market. The emerging NVM technologies like
RRAM/CBRAM, eCT and ST-MRAM are discussed in terms of their development for
commercial use in emNVM.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This report, </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">EFS400FA-2013 </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">(159 pages),<b> </b>is indispensible<b> </b>for
any company involved with emFlash and embedded NVM. It is available through Web-Feet Research in
electronic and hard copy. During this month and next, Web-Feet is dropping the
price from $6,500 to $4,995 for only reports bought in 2013. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-26028421740794360042013-08-05T14:48:00.000-07:002013-08-05T14:48:34.023-07:00Web-Feet Research Forecasts IoT, Google Glass in Twelfth Annual Flash Memory Applications and Markets Report <div class="MsoNormal">
<i>How will Internet of Things (IoT), Google Glasses
and NVMe SSDs impact Flash consumption in 2015 or sooner?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<b>MONTEREY, CA., August 5, 2013 – </b>Web-Feet Research,
Inc. provides a highly detailed market segmentation in its twelfth annual
report on<b> </b>Flash Memory Applications and Markets, <b>(CS100FA-2013).</b>
This extensive update provides an integrated memory/storage end-use market
segmentation in the consumer, mobile and computing markets and forecasts the
NAND and NOR usage in over 170 end-use applications. Some of the new applications forecast the rise
of wearable computing as found in the adoption of the Google Glasses and the
iWatch or Smart Watch that are already in prototype phase. As the NAND
technology evolved so did its markets. Beginning with basic media file storage
in consumer applications the NAND grew in usage. Once cell phones became
popular, mobile storage needed more sophisticated Flash in performing
execute-in-place and more reliable storage. Now, computing requires the utmost
performance from the NAND, while SSDs and caching gain acceptance as they
provide more reliability and performance.
NOR should see a mild rebound with Phase Change Memory in wireless and
Serial NOR initiating the connection for the Internet of Things in over 17
billion Intelligent Connected devices in 2018.</div>
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In the Flash Memory Applications and Markets forecast,
Web-Feet Research provides a density breakout by revenue, units, and Mbits for
SLC NAND, 2-bits per cell NAND, 3-bits/cell and enterprise2-bits/cell NAND,
Combo (MCP) NAND; NOR, MLC NOR, serial NOR, and Combo NOR and serial Combo NOR;
and Phase Change Memory. The forecast
period includes 2011 and 2012 historical and 2013-2018 projections. A special section breaks out the serial NOR
by over 30 applications including the major cellular use of dual and quad IO
serial NOR components. In addition, the compute
market examines the use of Flash cache, Hybrid Hard Drives (embedded Flash) and
SSDs for the client, commercial, and enterprise end-use markets. The GB consumption is also forecast by
memory/storage end-use market and shows when computing becomes the Flash
consumption market share leader. Finally,
the 2012 Flash Market Shares by Vendor is included showing how the players have
shifted ranks based on acquisitions and improved pricing to reach $27.7 billion
in total Flash and $24.1 billion in NAND.
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The Flash Memory Applications and Markets: 2011-2018
report, CS100FA-2013, (313 pages) is available for purchase from Web-Feet
Research in electronic and hard copy at a list price of $6.5K. </div>
Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-64035591818875683722013-08-05T11:16:00.000-07:002013-08-05T11:16:40.274-07:00Web-Feet Research releases its 11th annual Solid State Drives (SSD) Markets and Applications Forecast 2013<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<i style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">How is SSD technology continuing to transform
the Client, Enterprise and the Commercial/Industrial segments ? What are the latest transitions of form
factors, interface, and performance for SSDs?
How are Hard Disk Drives being impacted by SSD adoption in the various segments; changing
storage architectures? What will the
landscape for the SSD market relative to the Hard Disk Drive market be in 5
years? Find out in this comprehensive
report which includes quarterly shipment and revenue data with forecast trends to
2018.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <b>MONTEREY, CA., July 29, 2013 – </b>Web-Feet Research, Inc. has analyzed the SSD
market from its infancy tracking this altering technology for the storage
industry. This 11th annual report on<b> </b>Solid
State Drives (SSD) Markets and Applications, <b>(MS300SSD1-2013),</b> Web-Feet Research (WFR) takes a detailed and comprehensive
view in analyzing the SSD technology, markets and applications SSDs will be
used in. In this report the Storage
hierarchy of SSDs in client, enterprise, and commercial/industrial applications
are examined. The foundation of memory
and storage and how it relates to magnetic and solid state storage is also
examined. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Although there is
an abundant amount of coverage on SSDs in blogs and other media. WFR differentiates its study by providing detailed
analysis of the client, commercial and enterprise
end use markets for SSDs and incorporates the analysis of Hard Disk Drive
storage for the same competing end use markets. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Detailed forecasts
for both SSD and Hard Disk Drive storage for these end use markets are provided.
Included are the technical and implementation challenges facing SSDs with respect
to: capacity, reliability, density, operating temperature, and mechanical ruggedness
as they relate to flash component
performance, cost and integration. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Flash cache for
client and enterprise applications is
analyzed with forecasts for client side computing. Quarterly shipment and revenue data is provide
by form factor with four years of historical data. Beyond the SSD drive subsystem, additional
parameters for the storage hierarchy are also examined:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Options
and locations within the enterprise architecture to accelerate performance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">PCIe
SSDs vs SAS/SATA SSDs and Storage Appliances<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">SSD
and HDD Total Cost of Ownership Analysis <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Performance
Requirements <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Reliability<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cost of Ownership for Enterprise Storage <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cost / Indirect Cost<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Total Cost of Ownership is Evaluated in Enterprise Applications <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Usage models<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The report, </span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">MS300SSD1-2013
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">is
available through Web-Feet Research in electronic and hard copy. </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10038663864819183563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-65558565354277471812013-04-26T16:23:00.000-07:002013-04-26T16:23:14.879-07:00Solid State Drives (SSD) in the Commercial / Embedded Markets and Applications<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">MONTEREY, CA., April 26, 2013 - WebFeet Research, Inc. has released its latest SSD report </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;">(</span><b style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px;">SS375ESSD-2013)</b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"> on t</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;">he Commercial / Embedded segment. This segment is slow to changes with highly specialized designs that will be employed
for long periods as compared to the Client and Enterprise segments. SSDs in the Commercial / Embedded segment will have smaller volumes and a slower
growth rate as compared to the Client and Enterprise segments, however new opportunities are now being
created from emerging applications and existing applications are beginning
to transform this market segment making SSDs an appealing storage option. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WebFeet Research has done an in-depth analysis on
the market opportunity in the Commercial / Embedded Segment. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11pt;">This analysis covers six major application areas
consisting of:</span></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Networking and Telecommunications<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Consumer Electronics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Automotive<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Industrial<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Medical<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Each of these areas identifies the
major applications that utilizes solid state storage ranging up to thirteen
different applications. Solid state storage
includes removable cards, embedded Flash, USB drives and SSDs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This analysis is further refined by
identifying the SSD opportunity within solid state storage opportunity in
units, form factor, average capacity,
unit price and revenue for each of these applications. Each of these
application segments are further refined by identifying the opportunity
into three major geographical regions:
Americas, EMEA, and AsiaPac. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The analysis is provided in a
comprehensive excel book with linked references for additional details for the
forecast period 2011 to 2017<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10038663864819183563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-77290052498150977472013-04-17T15:36:00.000-07:002013-04-17T15:49:21.540-07:00WebFeet Research finds 2012 Flash Memory Components Market Revenues Slightly Less<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monterey, CA - April 17, 2013 – After conducting its annual
tabulation of each Flash memory vendor’s quarterly shipments, WebFeet Research,
a thirteen year old memory and storage
market research company, has found the 2012 Flash memory market to be $27.7 billion,
an decrease of -3.3% from 2011. A slight
increase in 2012 revenues came from the NAND Flash market, while the NOR market
contracted dramatically from 2011. Samsung was once again the 2012 revenue
market leader for all NV Memories and NAND, Micron remained the NOR market
leader, and Winbond took over as the serial NOR leader for this small NOR
centric market. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WebFeet Research utilizes its Flash Memory Reporting
Association to consolidate the reported shipments from the seventeen Flash
manufacturers. Both the Toshiba and
SanDisk shipments are calculated separately from each other and do not include
any portion of the other’s component revenues.
In this consolidation, the Flash memory component shipments are
segmented by NOR, serial NOR, MLC NOR, Combo NOR, and by NAND, MLC NAND, 3-bit/cell
NAND, and Combo NAND for all capacities: 512Kbit-128Gbits for standalone
components and 8Mbit – 64Gbit for the Combo (Flash + xRAM) or MCP devices. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
<u>2012 Non Volatile Memory Market Shares by Vendor</u> report, CS700MS-2013, includes
market shares by vendor for total Non Volatile Memory, NAND Flash, NOR Flash,
serial NOR Flash, total EEPROM, serial EEPROM, parallel EEPROM, OTP ROM (EPROM
and Mask ROM), and NVRAM (BBSRAM, NVSRAM, RTC, MRAM, FeRAM, PCM, RRAM and Others). Annual revenue forecasts are provided from 2011-2018
for the EEPROM, OTP ROM, and NVRAM markets. In addition, the NVSRAM market
shares are broken out by vendor for Real Time Clocks (RTC) and NVSRAM from 2007-2012. This report, CS700MS-2013, is available for
$2.5K and for providers of the market share data they can obtain the report
with a $500 discount. WebFeet Research also
has forecast the serial EEPROM and the NVSRAM (BBSRAM/nvSRAM, RTC) from 2010-2018
by density for revenue, units, and ASPs, and for the serial EEPROM by interface
type. Each of these additional forecasts
are priced at $500 and come in excel format.</span></span>Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-4407814001539619112013-03-22T11:02:00.003-07:002013-03-22T11:13:26.818-07:00Embedded Flash Drive, eMMC and emNAND Storage Applications Market Forecast Impressive Growth<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MONTEREY, CA., March 20, 2013 - WebFeet Research, Inc. has released its annual </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">report on the Embedded Flash Drives, eMMC and emNAND: 2010-2017 (<a href="http://www.webfeetresearch.com/#!product/prd1/515719721/embedded-flash-drives%2C-emmc%2C-and-emnand-">SS450EFD-2013</a>). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the enhanced edition covering this emerging segment within the semiconductor NAND </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">storage market. Embedded Flash Drives (EFD) provide internal storage functions in mobile, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">consumer and some compute applications.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These EFDs are the non-removable Flash storage positioned between Flash cards, found in many </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of these same applications as SSDs. As the EFD evolves they take on many controller features </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">found in the low end SSDs. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This EFD report provides an in-depth analysis of the market and applications for internal Flash </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">storage sub-systems, including the raw NAND or emNAND (embedded NAND components), </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the EFDs along with their use characteristics of the Flash component technologies and eMMC. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">emNAND is found in over thirty end applications, which includes nineteen applications that use </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EFDs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The EFD market revenue growth is expected to reach $15.2B in 2017, which is impressive. In</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">support of these numbers, EFD unit and revenue growth will be driven heavily by mobile Smart </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and Feature handsets, Tablets, Portable Media Players, Digital Camcorders, GPS, Digital Radio </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and others along with the adoption of Flash cache in notebook and desktop PCs. NAND Flash </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">technology: SLC, MLC, and 3-bit per cell will each be used for the design-in for these different </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">applications based on the NAND use characteristics matched to each applications’ usage needs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the known EFDs, eMMC, iNAND, LBA NAND to name a few, are profiled in the full </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">report, </span><a href="http://www.webfeetresearch.com/#!product/prd1/515719721/embedded-flash-drives%2C-emmc%2C-and-emnand-" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SS450EFD-2013</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, 134 pages. In addition, the report is segmented into the definition, d</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">evelopment, and market applications of EFD Storage. The next sections focus on the market </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">forecasts by application for EFDs and their respective NAND components, the EFD profiles and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a summary of EFDs by storage capacity for revenue, units, ASPs, and MBs. Finally, eMMC, the </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">main subset of EFD, will be forecast by its NAND revenue and units by nineteen applications and </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">by vendor market share.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This report, <a href="http://www.webfeetresearch.com/#!product/prd1/515719721/embedded-flash-drives%2C-emmc%2C-and-emnand-">SS450EFD-2013</a> is indispensible for any company involved with the Flash </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">storage market. It is available through WebFeet Research in electronic and hard </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">copy. </span></div>
Alan Niebelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15210155900844346240noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6704638696304093425.post-8951570999110385312013-03-18T21:57:00.000-07:002013-03-18T21:57:00.901-07:00Web-Feet Research releases its Quarterly Solid State Drives (SSD) Markets and Applications Forecast for the Commercial Segment.<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Web-Feet Research releases its Quarterly Solid State Drives (SSD) Markets </b><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and Applications Forecast for the Commercial Segment.</b><br />
<b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></b>
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What are some of the requirements of SSDs in the Commercial Segment and how is SSD adoption in </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this segment progressing? </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Find out in this comprehensive report, which also includes total quarterly </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">shipment and revenue data for 2012 along with the analysis of industry growth. Also included are </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">forecast trends to 2017.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">MONTEREY, CA., March 18, 2013 – WebFeet Research, Inc. has released its quarterly report on Solid </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">State Drives (SSD) Markets and Applications, (MS300SSD4-2012), with a focus of SSD opportunity in </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Commercial Segment. This report covers the commercial platforms of SSDs for industrial/embedded, </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">medical, aerospace/avionics and military applications. The following is a list of topics covered in this </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">quarterly report.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Executive Summary</b></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>SSDs in Commercial Applications</b></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Industrial / Embedded Applications</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Medical Applications</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aerospace / Avionics Applications</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Military Applications</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>SSD Form Factors in the Commercial Space</b></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Commercial Platform Market Forecasts</b></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Total Commercial Platform Market Opportunity</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul><ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forecast by Average Capacity and Capacity Range</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul><ul>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forecast of Units and Revenue by Form Factors (Modules, 1.8”, 2.5”, 3.5”)</span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Summary of Market Forecast for all Segments (Client, Enterprise, Commercial, Consumer)</b></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>SSD Shipment Forecast by Interface</b></span></li>
</ul>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>SSD Pricing forecast (SLC, MLC, eMLC)</b></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>List of 32 Figures</b></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>List of 19 Tables</b></span></li>
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