What are the Real Growth Paths for Flash Memory?
By Tom Coughlin
By Jean Jacques Maleval | April 2, 2012 at 3:23 pmTo read this article from Forbes, click on:
What are the Real Growth Paths for Flash Memory?
Many pundits predicted that the shortage of hard disk drives would cause a significant shift to SSDs last quarter and this quarter. But as indicated in Micron’s report on its F2Q results, many OEMs ordered what became excess inventory of SSDs that will take another quarter to use up. The basic reason is economic, even with HDD supply much less than demand and higher HDD prices the price of a given amount of flash memory capacity is still much higher than that of HDDs.