The current flash market is still anybody's game is the last maturity. Samsung, Hitachi, Spansion and Intel is the market four major manufacturers.
Some errors on the strategy, Intel let out in the first chair of its top spot, falling to the Samsung, Hitachi and Spansion after. AMD Spansion flash memory business while NAND and NOR flash memory production. It is almost the first half with the Intel NOR flash production flat, becoming the largest manufacturer of NOR Flash memory.
In the first half of the profit of the company 1.3 billion, almost its entire company profits (25 billion U.S. dollars) more than half. Overall, Intel and AMD gratifying results in the first half, but Samsung and Hitachi have suffered a setback. According to market research firm iSuppli estimates made, the global flash memory revenue will reach 16.6 billion more than in 2003 (116.4 million) up 46%. Messages are for digital cameras,
USB sticks and MP3 players, memory compression demand will greatly promote the sales of flash memory. It is predicted that sales of flash memory in 2005 to 175 billion U.S. dollars. However, iSuppli estimates that from 2005 to 2008 profit by up flash will drop slightly, the maximum will reach 22.4 billion.
Although the discussion of flash memory more incentive alternatives, flash memory is still subject to market attention. Substitute for the future not only must be the same as similar non-volatile flash memory, but also in slightly better speed and write cycles. In addition, production costs should also be relatively low. Now that manufacturing technology is not mature, new alternatives will not pose an absolute threat to the flash memory.
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