Flash is no flash in the pan
By Staff -- Purchasing, 2/10/2000
Flash memory market increased to $3 billion in 1999 and will grow to $8 billion by 2003, according to market researcher Cahners In-Stat."Nineteen ninety-nine has been a very good year for flash memory vendors," says Jesse Huffman, senior analyst with In-Stat. "Early in the year the explosive worldwide cell phone demand set the pace for an up-side year. The offshore economies began recovering and offshore manufacturing began consuming record quantities of flash memory," he says.
Huffman says emerging consumer electronic products such as MP3 players, digital cameras and portable computers will continue to drive the flash market.
Manufacturers will not be able to keep up with demand and there will be shortages of 16-megabit (Mb) and 32-Mb parts by midyear followed by shortages of lower densities including 2 Mb, according to Huffman.
Leadtimes have stretched to 20 weeks, and undercapacity conditions will last well into 2000, he says.
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