Recently, WD has displayed PCI-Ex1 SD card which can provide a read speed of 888MB/s and a write speed of 430MB/s, beyond a lot of SSDs. However, this is only an experimental product and will not on the market in short time. At present, SD Association has appealed the industry to discuss the standard of SD with PCl-E x1 interface.
By integrating 16 stacked 512Gb V-NAND flash with newly developed flash master, 1TB eUFS 2.1 flash released by Samsung Electronics can provide laptop capacity for smartphone users. Its sequential read speed of new eUFS is up to 1,000 MB per second, twice as fast as that of mainstream 2.5-inch SATA SSD. In order to satisfy the need of 1TB eUFS 2.1, Samsung Electronics planned to expand its producti...
With rising 96-layer 3D flash memory capacity in the second quarter, NAND flash memory market will come into a severe over supply stage.
SSD price reduction is largely depend on QLC in the future. Consumer HDD shipments will continue shrinking in 2019, as 500G SSD price is close to 1TB HDD.
Western Digital has recently released iNAND EU511 with read speed up to 750MB/s and capacity of 512GB. Such performance prepares a new generation of UFS 3.0 Flash for the upcoming 5G era.
Dream comes true at last. Now, some foreign manufacturers have officially launched a new micro SD card, integrating with SIM card contacts. A typical example is FuZion showed at MWC2019.
Recently, Samsung has released eMRAM 3.0 memory chip. Compared with eFlash, eMRAM has outstanding advantages in low consumption, low cost and write speed. At present, many memory factories have gradually produced eMRAM, allowing us to use it in the future.
There are several 96-layer 3D TLC NAND products on the market such as Toshiba 96-layer 3D TLC NAND BG4 series M.2 SSD, and Samsung fourth generation 96-layer V-NAND 970 EVO Plus M.2 SSD. Recently, Micron also has released its new product Micron 1300 TCL SSD. It’s a pity that Micron doesn’t announce its price.
Although the price of memory has begun to fall since the third quarter of last year and may continue in the first half of year, general manager of NANYA thinks Q2 will be a turning point due to improved demand. Those who want to buy memory should take actions at the right time.
Total value of global wafer foundry in the first quarter has a 16% recession compared with the same period of 2018, which reaches $14.62 billion. TSMC has a 48.1% market share, its revenue growth of the first quarter declines about 18%.
