"When all this lot hits the shops SSDs should get somewhat cheaper and that could spark something of an uptick in demand for replacement of hard drives."

Even my schizophrenia suffering brain picked up on this without being told. Most people reading this site have already realized that cheaper SSDs mean they'll start replacing hard drives more and more as time goes on.

Let's get some more in-depth opinions here. If that's the best you can do, you might as well have made the piece on paragraph shorter.

Intel may abandon Micron by then...

Because Intel will own all with Intel Inside Everything.