Thursday, June 30, 2005
NAND-based flash memory market has finally experienced some tough and turbulent times, following a lull and disappointing demand for flash-based MP3 players in the consumer market, according to an analyst.
Apple Computer and other flash-based MP3 vendors have held off their NAND-based memory purchases in recent times, due to a seasonal lull in the market, said Alan Niebel, president of Web-Feet Research Inc.
This, in turn, has caused excess component inventories in the market. And prices for NAND-based memories have fallen by as much as 30 percent in recent times, he said. "The NAND market has not collapsed," he said. "What happened is that the anticipated demand for MP3 players did not materialize as people had hoped."
Some estimated that flash-based MP3 vendors would ship a total of 60-to-64 million units this year. Now, flash-based MP3 vendors are only expected to ship a total of 45-to-48 million units in 2005, he added.
Some, however, believe the sky is falling, especially in NAND. According to a fabless supplier of analog-intensive mixed-signal chips into the portable consumer electronics market, a 30 percent fall in NAND flash memory pricing has "temporarily frozen the market" and caused disruption to orders for its own system-level chips
By: DocMemory
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