SSD penetration rate in notebooks to be about 1.5% in 2009
Solid State Drive (SSD) has been the killer application in NAND Flash market due to higher content per system consumption and more popular applications. According to DRAMeXchange, SSD market penetration rate in standard NB market will be estimated to be 1%~1.5% in 2009 and will be below 10% in low-cost-PC segments since HDD is still adopted as the mainstream storage devices.
Higher price has stumbled the extensive application and deeper market penetration for SSD. Given the fierce upward pricing trend for 16Gb and 32Gb in 1H09, extensive market acceptance for SSD has been postponed due to the higher cost and profit margin decline. Demand is estimated to be less optimistic compared to the previous forecast in 2009. PC vendors are more cautious and conservative toward SSD development even though Microsoft has made some adjustments for SSD optimal application (TRIM) in the brand-new Windows 7.
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