Solid-state drives will fall below US$1 per gigabyte of capacity

1GB 1 US dollars - this has long been considered as a stigma for SSDs to become popular and become a popular mainstream configuration. According to DRAMeXchange's latest report, SSDs can be purchased at a price of less than 1GB for the second half of this year. .

The latest NAND flash memory technologies such as 20nm and 19nm will be put into mass production in the second half of this year, and the cost of flash memory chips will be further reduced, which will be less than 1 US dollar per GB. DRAMeXchange expects that ultrabooks and ultra-thin notebooks will transition from hybrid hard drives to pure SSDs after that, and the latter's mainstream capacity will also rise to 128GB.

With the introduction of the Intel Ivy Bridge processor and the further decline in the price of SSDs, Ultrabook is expected to usher in a big explosion in the third quarter of this year, and SSDs will gradually become the first choice for PC upgrades.

DRAMeXchange data shows that the proportion of NAND flash memory consumed by SSDs was only 5.1% in 2011 and is expected to soar to 15% this year. Therefore, the potential for SSDs to contribute to the flash memory market is very large, and manufacturers will be even more so. Make every effort to improve the process, performance and reliability of flash memory.

Intel will launch King Crest, a new 2.5-inch SSD with 20nm MLC NAND flash memory in the third quarter of this year. OCZ even plans to use three-tier TLC NAND flash memory chips in SSDs, which will inevitably drive down the price of SSDs.