Flash companies experience a decline

DRAM EXCHANGE RELEASED today the NAND Flash Brand Companies total revenue for 2008, and it’s not looking good.

Samsung and Toshiba look like they have made the best of a bad situation with market shares increasing by around three per cent comparing to last year, while companies such as Hynix found market decline as it dropped 4.1 per cent.

Overall the market share has dropped 19.3 per cent according to the 4Q08 which shows worldwide NAND Flash Brand companies at 2.227bn USD while in Q308 it was 2.761bn.

DRAM Exchange reckons there are two main reasons for this, one that good old recession, and two the declining worldwide consumer confidence.

Overall demand and expenditure for consumer electronics both found a decline as the overall average selling price dropped 32 percent QoQ.

So who’s ranking over whom? Well, Samsung remains in first place, with 35.6 per cent of the market share, Toshiba came second with 33.1 per cent, then came Hynix with 11.9 per cent while Micron and Intel were at number four and number five with 9.6 per cent and 6.7 per cent respectively. Numonyx came sixth with 3.1 per cent.

While these figures are representative of Q408 we wouldn’t expect them to get much better in times to come. μ

L'Inq
DRAM Exchange