By Darren Allan
Prices of SSDs are going to rise this coming quarter as demand outstrips supply, according to a new report which cites a shortage in NAND flash chips – and this will have a knock-on effect on laptops.
The report, from analyst firm TrendForce, talks specifically about the prices of SSDs supplied to PC manufacturers, which in the case of MLC-based drives will rise by around 12% to 16% compared to the previous quarter, a fairly hefty hike.
TLC-based SSDs will see a similar increase, although perhaps a little less, with a prediction of a 10% to 16% rise.
The aforementioned knock-on effect of this is that notebook manufacturers using SSDs in their portables are unlikely to move to bigger drives (like the massive Toshiba 1.6TB SSD, pictured), simply due to these supply issues and cost increases.
The analyst company reckons that most laptops will run with 128GB or 256GB drives, rather than shifting up to larger capacity SSDs as manufacturers might have liked to.
Aggressive buying
Alan Chen, senior research manager at DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, observed that: “Average contract prices of client-grade SSDs in the PC-OEM market are rising this first quarter because not only PC clients are aggressively stocking up their …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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