Market Trends of Non-Volatile Memory Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Non-Volatile Memory Market according to our research experts:
Flash Memory is Expected to Hold a Significant Market Share
- The growing demand and penetration of consumer electronics led to device flash memory applications. This memory type finds applications in laptops, GPS, electronic musical instruments, digital cameras, cell phones, and many others. Additionally, it is extensively adopted by data center solution vendors. With exponential growth in the adoption of cloud solutions, the demand for data centers is also surging.
- Further, with increasing propensity toward AI/ML applications and IoT devices that require high low latency and high throughput cloud storage, flash storage and enterprise data centers are optimized to train deep neural networks. The growing number and size of data centers are expected to augment demand further.
- To cater to the growing demand, vendors operating in the market focus on developing new solutions with better capabilities. For instance, in February 2021, Kioxia Corporation and Western Digital Corp. announced the development of a sixth-generation, 162-layer 3D flash memory technology. This was the company's highest density and most advanced 3D flash memory technology that utilizes many technology and manufacturing innovations.
- Furthermore, NOR Flash memory is also gaining traction due to ultra-low-power needs. For instance, in January 2022, Infineon Technologies announced additional development tools to support its family of SEMPER NOR Flash devices. It will further help developers to quickly design safety-critical and inherently secure automotive, industrial, and communication systems.
- Similarly, in November 2021, Macronix International Co., Ltd. announced itself as the industry's first Serial NOR Flash memory manufacturer to bring 1.2V devices to mass production. According to the company, the ultra-low-power (ULP), high-speed 120MHz MX25S Serial NOR Flash memories are poised to usher in a new generation of products targeted at applications that include Internet of Things (IoT), wireless communications technologies, WiFi, and Narrowband IoT systems, hand-held and Bluetooth devices, and consumer applications.
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Asia Pacific is Expected to Account for a Significant Market Share
- The construction of new infrastructure, including data centers, has been growing across various countries of the Asia Pacific region, owing to a surge in demand for online entertainment, telecommuting, and video and voice call services. With the fast development of the digital economy, building large big data centers in countries such as China and India is becoming necessary.
- China has emerged as the leading country owing to its aggressive approach to the NAND memory business. For instance, Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd (YMTC), one of China's major memory companies, had shipped 64 layers of NAND domestically in low volumes, including SSDs, with 128-layer production in development and shipments in 2021.
- Furthermore, startups in the region that are engaged in developing technologies related to non-volatile memory are receiving several investments. For instance, in April 2021, InnoStar Semiconductor (Shanghai) Co. Ltd raised around USD 100 million in a pre-series A financing round. The funding round was led by Shanghai Lianhe Investment, and new investors who joined the round included state-backed Atlas Capital and KQ Capital. The company aims to use the investment to produce resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) chips and other chips for storage applications.
- Companies in the region are utilizing non-volatile memory for various industrial applications. In November 2021, Floadia Corporation, a provider of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) technology, announced the availability of its high-quality eNVM (embedded Non-volatile Memory), with product name ZT, supporting 150 degrees C retention of 10 years, in Shanghai Huahong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation 180BCD (Z8) platform.
- Furthermore, the region is also witnessing an increase in R&D activities in Non-Volatile Memory (NVM). In January 2022, Samsung Electronics announced the demonstration of one of the world's first in-memory computing based on MRAM (Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory). Such trends are expected to drive the growth of the studied market in the Asia Pacific region during the forecast period.
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