Output value for the global NAND flash industry is forecast to rise 25.5% to US$25.39 billion in 2013, thanks to brisk demand coming from the high-growth markets for smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks, according to DRAMeXchange.
DRAMeXchange previously estimated the output value at 15%.
The overall NAND flash bit demand growth is now expected to reach 47.7% in 2013, buoyed by the increased adoption of integrated solid-state drives (SSD) and embedded MMC (eMMC) solutions among smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks, DRAMeXchange indicated.
Meanwhile, chipmakers continue to impose tight supply strategies towards the channel, and put a halt to their capacity expansion plans, DRAMeXchange said. Major suppliers have also slowed their technology migration plans to the 16nm process, which will help stabilize the NAND flash price trend for 2013, DRAMeXchange believes.
In other news, DRAMeXchange has disclosed NAND flash contract prices for the first half of March. Early March contract prices for 64Gb and 32Gb MLC chips averaged US$5.34 and US$2.88, respectively, up 6.8% and 9.5%, while those for 32Gb TLC parts jumped 57.1% on average to US$3.
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