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Speaking of the SSD market in 2017, a "missing word" can describe the market situation this year. Flash prices have started to rise since the middle of last year. In the first three quarters of this year, the shortage of NAND flash memory led to a sharp rise in SSD prices , Until the fourth quarter of this year stopped rising, however, the price is still hovering at a high level.
The main reason leading to flash out of stock is the mobile phone market demand, now the phone's built-in storage space is quite large, you see the iPhone 8 and iPhone X even 256GB have come, it will naturally consume a lot of flash memory capacity, the upstream flash memory manufacturers Production capacity to mobile phones and other mobile devices used by flash memory, High-end server market demand is very large and will consume a lot of capacity, then the remaining to consumer-grade SSD will naturally use less, but the PC-based SSD is also growing, the flash memory manufacturing plant itself to the 3D flash memory Slowly shifting production capacity, flash capacity does not degrade well during this process, so flash for several quarters continued to be in short supply, leading to a one-year markup for almost a year.
Since the upper reaches of the flash memory is in short supply, the downstream SSD is naturally in short supply. The downstream SSD vendors do not have to worry about the SSD squeeze on hand this year. SSDs are often out of stock for them this year Flash SSD will be able to earn, new product launch speed is not so frequent.
This year there are two more important masters for SSDs, one of which is the Phison PS5008-E8 master, the PCI-E 3.0 x2 4-channel flash controller, Although performance is much better than previous NVMe SSDs, it is always better than SATA, and more importantly, it lowers the barrier to entry for NVMe SSDs, and Lite-T11 128GB now costs more than 400 to buy It is impossible to buy NVMe SSD at this price.
In addition, the low-end SATA market also has a lot of new CostDown masters, which makes this already a very chaotic market has become more confused, and I now have a little bit do not want to touch these products.
Another point is that the domestic SSD controller finally enters the consumer SSD market. In November, Memory Card Technology released the STAR1000 high-performance NVMe SSD controller, which provides eight flash channels and supports ONFI 4.0 and Toggle DDR 3.0, flash interface speed 800MT /s to support DDR4 / LPDDR3 external cache up to 2400MT / s. The maximum continuous read speed of the master is 3GB / s, the maximum continuous write speed is 2GB / s, the maximum random read / write IOPS is 350K and 300K, respectively It is indeed quite good, the first SSD equipped with the main control Lite Lite T10 Plus will also be listed in the near future.
Speaking of the annual SSD of this year, I will say one, Intel's Optane SSD 900P, it is definitely a landmark product, which uses the 3D XPoint flash memory in terms of performance and life expectancy than the current NAND flash memory and more , Very low latency to use it with super random performance, especially 4K QD1 random read and write IOPS is now several times the SSD, continuous read speed of 2.4GB / s, continuous write 2GB / s, random Read 55 million IOPS, random write 500,000 IOPS, is definitely the strongest SSD now, as for his shortcomings? Except for too expensive nothing.
Before this, Lite-On Group and Unisplendor Group jointly announced that they will jointly invest 100 million U.S. dollars to build an SSD solid-state drive development and manufacturing plant in Suzhou, China, which will contribute 55 million U.S. dollars, accounting for Shares 55%, assigned three board members, Lite then invested 45 million US dollars, accounting for 45% of the shares, assigned two board members.
