10
Jul
A new report from research firm iSuppli highlights a threat to continued SSD adoption in netbooks, and it also gives some insight into what’s behind Samsung’s recent positive earnings rumblings. In short, NAND flash memory prices have come roaring back with a vengeance, with the price of a 16Gb MLC NAND module posting a 127 percent price gain from the fourth quarter of 2008 to the second quarter of 2009. iSuppli suggests that this price spike will slow SSD uptake, especially in the cost-sensitive netbook market, and they’re probably right.
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