Memory & Storage Market Statistics, Trends and Data
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In 2021, industrial, DRAM and automotive integrated circuits have been expected to record strong growth in 2021 with rates of 47%, 41% and 39% respectfully.
The total amount of data created, captured, copied and consumed locally is forecasted to increased rapidly which reached 64.2 zettabytes in 2020 and it’s forecasted over the next five years that the global data creation is projected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes.
In the second quarter of 2021, 16.5 billion U.S dollars worth of revenue was generated from sales of NAND flash memory products worldwide. Among vendors, Samsung is the leading NAND flash manufacture in terms of revenue.
Memory
In the graph it shows the breakdown of VRAM among users of the Steam gaming platform as of June 2021. At that time, over 24% of users were using a graphics card with 6,143 megabytes of video memory.
In the third quarter of 2021, the semiconductor industry made 26.5 billion U.S dollars, this was through the sales of dynamic random-access memory also known as DRAM products.
In 2021, revenue from memory component sales is estimated to reach $158.1bn U.S dollars – this is an increase from the $117.5bn dollars in revenue that was recorded in 2020. Forecasts however predict that in 2022 is set to rise to $171.7bn U.S dollars – this is a 8.5% increase from the previous year of 2021.
In the third quarter of 2021, Samsung held a market share of 44 percentage while SK Hynix occupied a market share of 27 percent. Micron sat as the third largest DRAM supplier at 22% of the market share during the third quarter of 2021
Mobile DRAM prices for the third quarter of 2021 are forecasted to defy present market realities and increase approximately 5 percent. It’s projected however that the third quarter of 2021 is expected to have lower price increases (3%) in comparison to the second quarter of 2021 (18%).
In 2021, sales of DDR4 are expected to account for 90 percent of DRAM market revenues, whilst sales of DDR3 are forecast to make up eight percent of market revenues. Whilst DDR and DDR2 revenues only account for 1 percent of the overall DRAM market.
Storage
In 2020, global unit shipments of hard-disk drives fell to 260.3m units, this results in a 17.7% fall from the 316.3 million units shipped in the previous year. The highest shipment figure was recorded in 2010 where over 650 million units were shipped.
In 2021, the global memory integrated circuit market is expected to generate 155 billion U.S dollars in revenue – 56% of which should come from DRAM products from which the other is expected to be generated by NAND (Flash) memory sales.
In the third quarter of 2021, the average contact prices of enterprise SSDs are expected to increase by 15 percent quarter-on-quarter. NAND flash products however have not been forecasted to reach an increase of such in the same quarter
Kingston was the largest solid-state drive (SSD) module maker for the retail channel market in 2019, this accounted for over one quarter of overall unit shipments globally. As a whole, the top ten players had a combined shipment share of about 60% including the likes of Tigo, Teklast, Colorful, Galaxy, Lenovo and others.
In 2021, it is forecasted that 38% of total NAND memory capacity will go towards smartphones – while 32% will go toward solid-state drive (also known as SSD) demands. The origins of NAND flash memories come from Toshiba who originally developed this is the early 1980s.
Companies
In the second quarter of 2021, Samsung generated revenues of $5.5bn U.S dollars from the sales of NAND flash products worldwide – this was ranked first amongst other manufacturers (Kioxia, WDC, SK Hynix, Intel, etc.). Kioxia ranked second among vendors, generating $3bn U.S dollars in revenue from the sales of NAND flash prodcuts.
In the first quarter of Seagate’s fiscal year of 2022 the average hard disk drive size was 5.7 terabyte. This is an increase however compared to the previous quarter when the average capacity amounted to 5.4 terabytes. FY2022 has been the largest capacity reported over the given period since FY2015 for the company..
In October 2020, the South Korean memory semiconductor supplier – SK Hynix announced that it will acquire Intel’s NAND flash business for $9bn U.S dollars. Alongside this deal the supplier will have access to Intel’s facility in China and NAND wafer and components operations alongside with NAND IP and SSD business.
In the first quarter of the 2022 fiscal year, Seagate’s HDD (hard disk drive) product line generated a revenue of approximately 2.86 billion U.S dollars worldwide. Comparatively, HDD brings in significantly more than the other product lines of enterprise data solutions and SSD.