Intel has completely said goodbye to the SSD solid-state storage business, but this move is considered a smart act by the outside world.Previously, Intel announced it would sell its NAND flash memory and solid-state storage business to South Korea’s SK Hynix for $ 9 billion and deliver its Fab 68 wafer factory in Dalian, China.Intel’s core business at the start of its founding in 1968 was storage. The first 3101 product was SRAM static random access memory. It was only in November 1971 that the era of microprocessors was opened until 4004.
South Korea’s SK Hynix acquires Intel SSD After the NAND business, a brand new Solidigm company was formed, which subsequently released enterprise grade SSDs D7-P5520, D7-P5620 and consumer grade P41 Plus SSD, generally considered the sequel to Intel 670p, and also showed PLC SSD for the first time in the world. .
In the outside world, Intel needs to focus on its core business: CPU chips. If they lose their technological leadership in the CPU market, their leadership in other areas will become irrelevant.
Fields That Cannot Be Dominated “After the start of 2019, the NAND market price continued to be slow and Intel’s storage business continued to lose money over the four quarters of the year, which was also a burden. they had to get rid of, especially when the main business was slow.
After years of disclosure, the unit price of the SSD is becoming more and more affordable. In overseas markets, some 2TB SSDs have dropped below $ 100. TrendForce analyst Bryan Ao, a well-known statistical agency, pointed out that 2TB SSDs with QLC particles will become a disruptor in the market next year. and there is now about a 30% chance that its price will be less than $ 80 by then.
Indeed, the supply of NAND Flash memory particles supporting SSD, MicroSD card, and eMMC storage products is still in a situation of oversupply.The agency predicts that there will be a drop of around 20% by the end. of the year in order to clear the goods.
Statistics show that the current 1TB mechanical hard drive is generally around 2/3 the price of the 1TB SSD, and the 2TB mechanical hard drive is generally almost half the price of the 2TB SSD. The latest opinion from analysts is that, for at least 1 TB, the price gap between SSDs and HDDs will begin to flatten out next year, which could cause lower capacity HDDs to be no longer popular with consumers.
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