Solid-state drives are still quite large in the future

Solid State Drive (SSD) is a fast-growing storage product in recent years, and it also brings a lot of opportunities for memory-related businesses, including NAND Flash chips, SSD suppliers, or SSD control chip makers. Currently NAND Flash chip suppliers include Samsung Electronics, Toshiba, SanDisk, Micron, Intel, SK Hynix, etc. SSD suppliers include the above NAND Flash suppliers and memory module factories, traditional hard disk suppliers, etc., SSD control chip suppliers include US-based LSI, Marvell, etc. Taiwan-based suppliers include Zhiwei, Qunlian, and Huirong.

The SSD market is divided into consumer markets dominated by notebook computers (NBs), desktop computers (DTs) and tablet computers, and markets such as aerospace, automotive electronics or industrial computers, industrial control products, and large-scale data. Library of cloud storage applications. The above-mentioned fields have grown rapidly in recent years, and there is still considerable room for growth in the future. According to market adjustment agencies, the 2013-2017 annual SSD market shipments have a CAGR of 30%.

The rise of the consumer SSD market is mainly due to the rise of lightweight notebooks, tablet PCs, and other applications. SSD applications in this market are classified as stand-alone SSDs, hybrid SSDs, or cache-enabled SSDs, although the price of NAND Flash chips varies. With the gradual progress of semiconductor process evolution, the cost of pure SSD products for the consumer market is still relatively high. Therefore, different market applications are cut out, and some are used with traditional hard drives to reduce unit cost.

According to the market adjustment agency iSuppli, total SSD shipments in the first quarter of 2013 were approximately 11.5 million units, which was a significant increase from the 6 million units shipped in the same period of 2012.