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Embedded Flash Drives
Web-Feet Research, Jan 2011, Pages: 131
This is the enhanced edition covering this emerging segment within the semiconductor NAND storage market. Embedded Flash Drives (EFD) provide internal storage functions in mobile, consumer and some compute applications. They are the non-removable Flash storage positioned between Flash cards, found in many of these same applications, and SSDs. As the EFD evolves they take on many controller features found in the low end SSDs.
The EFD report provides an in-depth analysis of the market and applications for internal Flash storage sub-systems, including the raw NAND or emNAND (embedded NAND components) and the EFDs along with their use characteristics of the Flash component technologies. emNAND is found in over thirty end-use applications, which includes nineteen applications that use EFDs.
Forecasting on just the EFD market, it’s revenue growth is expected to reach $16.9B in 2015, which seems quite large. In support of these numbers, EFD unit and revenue growth will be driven heavily by mobile Smart and Feature handsets, Tablets, Portable Media Players, Digital Camcorders, GPS, Digital Radio and others along with the adoption of Flash cache in notebook and desktop PCs. NAND Flash technology: SLC, MLC, 3-bit and 4-bit per cell will each be used for the design-in for these different applications based on the NAND use characteristics matched to each applications’ usage needs.
All the known EFDs, OneNAND, eMMC, iNAND, LBA NAND to name a few, are profiled in the full report, SS450EFD-2011, 131 pages. In addition, the report is segmented into the definition, development, and market applications of EFD Storage. The next sections focus on the market forecasts by application for EFDs and their respective NAND components, the EFD profiles and a summary of EFDs by storage capacity for revenue, units, ASPs, and MBs.
This report is indispensible for any company involved with the Flash storage market.
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