NAND Flash Market Price: 23% growth and 30% decline in the first/second half of 2013
■ Limited output from wafer supplying side, market goods quantity reduced in first half of 2013
■ eMMC/eMCP、SSD consumed a great part of NAND Flash total share
■ NAND Flash price increased in the first half of 2013 due to short supply
■ 4% Price increase after SK-Hynix China Fab fire in Sep, then drop again due to Q4 weak demand
NAND Flash manufactory technique process and market structure
■ NAND Flash process technology comes into the era of 1Xnm completely
■ The upstream chip factory promote advanced Nanometer Process technology
■ 3D NAND Flash technology time table announced, may to be main market trend in 2016
■ NAND Flash chip output increased season by season, the supply shortage of excess by variable
■ The Mutual Conversion between DRAM and NAND Flash Affects memory chip capacity change
NAND Flash related product application market- - The mainstream embedded storage products
■ The development of mainstream eMMC products
■ The mainstream embedded storage products in the smart phone market
■ Mainstream embedded storage products in the tablet market
■ Mainstream embedded memory applications in emerging markets
NAND Flash related application market- - SSD storage product
■ NAND Flash technical development decreases the SSD cost
■ Interface of SSD will change from SATA III to PCIe
■ Controller Flash Chip cost down the SSD cost and the interface is transferring from SATA III to PCIe
■ SSD FORM FACTOR transform to NGFF and SATA EXPRESS
■ The main application of SSD market development
NAND Flash related products- - traditional storage product
■ Flash Memory Card sales volumn is increasing, especially in high performance and large capacity application market
■ USB Flash Drive Market needs Radical innovation to stimulate the demand
