Consumer SSD Prices To Tumble As Vendors Engage In Price War




/ 10 years ago

crucial_m.2

There’s good news for consumers out there as industry experts Digitimes report that consumer SSD prices are to continue their drastic fall as competition is heating up. Major suppliers Micron Technology (who produce Crucial branded products), Intel, Kingston Technology, SanDisk and Samsung are all gearing up for a price battle. Micron has reduced its sales of NAND chips to other companies in order to boost supply and sales of its own Crucial brand. Micron hopes to double its quarter on quarter shipments of SSDs. Micron’s big push will be spearheaded by their newest affordable release – the Crucial MX100 series as well as the recent M550 series.

Kingston are also making a big push with their SSD shipments now reaching a hefty 600,000 per month, competing with SanDisk and Samsung for the number one spot. It is also expected that Intel’s 9 Series chipset motherboards will open up another market for SSD vendors as they can now push into both M.2 and SATA Express based SSD products which is a new and rapidly growing market. SanDisk has recently become the #2 vendor in the consumer SSD space with a 16% share in 2013 as well as an aggressive rise in sales for SanDisk in the enterprise market which they hope will generate them $1 billion in sales by 2016. SanDisk’s enterprise portfolio is being spearheaded by products like the X210 Business class SSD.

Source: Digitimes

Image courtesy of Crucial


Topics: , , , , , , , , ,

Support eTeknix.com

By supporting eTeknix, you help us grow and continue to bring you the latest newsreviews, and competitions. Follow us on FacebookTwitter and Instagram to keep up with the latest technology news, reviews and more. Share your favourite articles, chat with the team and more. Also check out eTeknix YouTube, where you'll find our latest video reviews, event coverage and features in 4K!

Looking for more exciting features on the latest technology? Check out our What We Know So Far section or our Fun Reads for some interesting original features.

eTeknix Facebook eTeknix Twitter eTeknix Instagram eTeknix Instagram
  • Be Social With eTeknix

    Facebook Twitter YouTube Instagram Reddit RSS Discord Patreon TikTok Twitch
  • Features


Send this to a friend
})