Statistics on Global Flash Market – Statista

Here are some statistics on global flash market published by analyt firm Statista.

Size of flash memory market worldwide from 2013 to 2021 (in $ billion)

The statistic below shows the size of the global flash memory market, from 2013 to 2021. In 2017, the flash memory market is expected to be worth $51.67 billion worldwide.

Distribution projection of NAND bits worldwide in 2018, by application

Here the statistic shows a forecast for the distribution of demand for NAND memory bits worldwide in 2018, broken down by device segment. In 2018, 37% of total NAND memory capacity will go towards smartphones. NAND flash memory was originally developed by Toshiba in the early 1980s. It allows greater storage density and lower cost per bit than the alternative NOR flash, but is more useful as a secondary storage device than as primary storage, as it does not support a random-access external address bus.

SSD vs. HDD