NAND Flash world market will grow much slower than previously expected this message
Instead, as in the past by iSuppli forecasts by 27 percent, the Global sales of NAND Flash memory devices this year only by 9 percent to 15.2 billion US dollars grow. 2007, the NAND Flash chip manufacturers, according to iSuppli products with a value of 13.9 billion US dollars to sell, therefore, the growth was about 13 percent. ISuppli expects 2009 to a growth rate of 31 percent fat and 19.8 billion US dollars in 2010, however, an increased by 4 percent to 19.1 billion US dollars shrinking market.
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Nearly nine tenths (87 percent) of the NAND flash revenue collected 2007, the three largest manufacturers Samsung (42 percent market share), Toshiba (28 percent) and Hynix (17 percent). After already half as much market share as Hynix, which together well 9 percent, reached only in 2005 founded the joint venture IM Flash Micron (6 percent) and Intel (3 percent). Intel's NOR flash partner comes at STMicroelectronics NAND Flash still to 2.2 percent, Renesas lie behind (1.5 percent) and Qimonda (0.1 percent).
Above all, the major player in the NAND flash market is currently investing heavily: Toshiba puts together with partner SanDisk several billion dollars in Japanese Fabs, including Samsung and Hynix to build further production capacities. Because NAND Flash memory chips, especially in so-called plug Consumer Electronics, for example in memory cards for Digi Cams or MP3 players (but also in USB sticks), the private consumption - especially in the consumer Mecca USA -- a great impact on sales.
The U.S. households remains because of the real estate crisis and the threat of recession, but less and less money to spend, according to iSuppli, including sales growth of devices such as Apple iPods, in the United States almost three-fourths of the MP3 player market, clearly suffering. Apple will be in 2008 NAND flash memory with a value of 1.4 billion US dollar order was still $ 200 million more than 2007. Also, the growing sales of solid state disks (SSDs), according to iSuppli less strongly rising NAND Flash sales curve is not. Toshiba has already reduced its profits.
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