Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Objective Analysis
Published: November 2007
Product Code: R3518-2Description NAND flash in its short life has gone from insignificant sales to become a $16 billion market in under ten years. This product, the fastest-growing technology in the history of the semiconductor market, is poised to displace DRAM as the leading semiconductor memory. This new 55-page study examines NAND as a market, and explains how and why this technology has been able to grow so fast, and what is likely to come over the next five years.
Table of Contents - Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Outlining a Phenomenon
- How did NAND Grow so Quickly?
- A Short History of NAND Technology
- How NAND Displaced Camera Film
- Floppies: NAND’s Second Casualty
- What Happened to the Disposable Camera Market?
- The Demise of the Music CD Market
- NAND now Displacing Optical Storage
- NAND Cost Analysis
- Basic Die Size Estimates
- Elements that Determine Die Sizes
- Cost as a Function of Process & Density
- Cost as a Function of Bits per Cell
- Cost as a Function of Wafer Diameter
- Elements that Do Not Impact Die Cost
- Cost Projections over Time
- NAND Pricing De-Mystified
- NAND Maker Profiles
- Samsung Electronics Corporation
- Toshiba Corporation
- SanDisk Corporation
- Hynix Semiconductor
- Micron Technology
- Intel Corporation
- STMicroelectronics
- Key Success Factors
- NAND Markets
- Flash Cards
- USB Flash Drives
- MP3 Players
- Digital Still Camera (DSC)
- Cell Phone Handset
- Future Markets
- PC HDD Cache
- Solid-State Drives (SSDs
- Video
- Video Games
- Handheld GPS
- Replacement for CDs/DVDs/Other Media
- Printed Matter
- NAND Capacity
- Current Capacity
- Future Capacity
- Capacity/Pricing Relationship
- Future Capacity Expectations
- Alternatives to NAND
- NOR
- Hard Drives/Rotating Media
- Future Technologies
- Magnetic RAM (MRAM)
- Phase-Change Memories (PRAM)
- Ferroelectric Memory (FRAM)
- Carbon Nanotubes
- Key Success Factors in NAND
- Purchasing Strategies
- NAND Manufacturing Strategies
- Strategies for Card and USB Makers
- Strategies for Others
- Investing in NAND
- Summary
- Methodology
- Figures
- Tables
- Author
- Jim Handy
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