NAND memory grew at a fast pace until 2006, then the core memory market got mature and slowed down. The NAND segment makes up most the market with SD formats consuming about 50% of the market share, with MP3, USB and CF media making the balance. In 2007, supply overtook demand and this trend continues […]
DRAMeXchange published a market research paper stating that NAND flash memory will continue to flood the market at lower prices. NAND flash memory is primarily used for storing songs, photos and other data on gadget type devices like digital cameras, MP3 players and iPods. The biggest contributing factor on why the market will continue to […]
While forecasting strong sales and profitability in 2008, Silicon Motion projects that demand for low-density NAND flash will beat that for the high-density segment, driven by demand for microSD cards and embedded memory, said company president and CEO Wallace Kou. Silicon Motion guides that annual sales will grow by 25-35% on year with gross margins […]
Toshiba might be on to something with their development of a new three dimensional memory cell array structure that enhances cell density and data capacity without relying on advances in process technology. All this with minimal increase in chip size. The new structure design reflects pillars of stacked memory elements passing vertically through multi-stacked layers […]
If you strip away the marketing language, the AI hardware race right now is about one thing: moving data is expensive. Not financially. Electrically. Every time information leaves memory, crosses a bus, hits a processor, and comes back, energy gets burned. At scale, that energy becomes heat. Heat becomes infrastructure. Infrastructure becomes cost. That’s why […]
I was in the CES 2026 press room when SK hynix laid out its next-gen AI memory roadmap Las Vegas always has noise, but the CES press rooms are different. They’re quieter, more technical, and the people in the seats are listening for one thing: what ships, what scales, and what changes procurement decisions six […]
If you’ve built a PC, upgraded a laptop, or bought an SSD in the last twenty years, chances are you’ve run into the Crucial brand. For a long time, Crucial was the friendly, consumer-facing arm of Micron — a way for one of the world’s biggest memory manufacturers to sell directly to everyday users. So […]
Memory Apocalypse: How the Surge in AI Demand Is Rapidly Driving Up the Cost of PC RAM and SSD Storage The so-called “memory apocalypse” is hitting the PC world like a bad hangover, and it’s showing up everywhere—from empty motherboard aisles to gamers quietly shelving their upgrade plans. Motherboard sales in key markets have fallen […]
A sweeping shortage of DRAM and NAND, driven by AI demand and global supply constraints, is pushing contract prices up by as much as 60% this quarter. Memory-chip pricing is no longer inching upward — it’s jumping. Recent reports indicate that Samsung Electronics has raised contract prices for certain memory chips by up to 60% […]
Trump Tariff Hurts USB Flash Drive Market Yes, there is a tariff on USB flash drives coming from China. Two tariffs have been assigned to the USB flash drive category when importing product from China since 2020: February of 2020 — a 7.5% tariff was enacted by Trump January of 2025 — a 10.0% tariff […]
