Driven by a new round of IoT deployments and artificial intelligence, chip market spending is likely to increase further by 2018. However, a new report released Tuesday by IHS Inc.'s industry analyst IHS Markit said Last year's price hikes pushed a new round of growth, but the process could slow down, meaning the price will stabilize.
Last year, IHS said global chip spending exceeded $ 292 billion last year as vendors struggled to meet new demands for DRAM and NAND flash memory, while last year's chip shortage blamed data center operators for competing to offer all-flash storage options so customers can Access Big Data faster.
However, this year the entire flash memory market growth will slow down, analysts expect the memory chip prices will stabilize, and spending will resume to single-digit growth if the memory component market this year is still in supply and demand equilibrium, the price will be normalized.
As China's chipmakers will increase production this year, memory prices are expected to remain stable this year, a prediction in line with Gartner's latest report.Not only China, to increase the NAND flash memory market share, SK hynix to mass production.
In the past year, the most commonly challenged group is the main consumer of flash memory chips, with Apple and Samsung being the largest consumers and top five with Lenovo, Huawei and Dell.
About a third of the world's chips are used for wireless technologies used in smartphones, with servers and other computer platforms making up 17% of last year's Industrial Internet of Things and the automotive industry, which have also invested heavily in memory chips.
As traditional chip spending has stabilized, more money is expected to flood the so-called 'next-generation flash market' over the next five years.
Markets and Research, a Irish-based analyst firm, said in a December report that emerging markets are expected to be strongly driven by the company's need for big data storage as well as providing greater bandwidth for AI and IoT deployments and More scalable options.