Intel has completely said goodbye to the SSD solid state storage business, but the outside world considers this move a smart move.Earlier, Intel announced that it would sell its NAND flash memory and solid-state storage business to South Korea’s SK Hynix for $9 billion, and transfer its Fab 68 wafer factory in Dalian, China.Storage was Intel’s main business at the start of its founding in 1968. The first product was the SRAM static random access memory 3101. It wasn’t until November 1971 that the era of microprocessors was ushered in by the 4004.
After South Korea’s SK Hynix acquired Intel’s SSD NAND business, it formed a brand new company Solidigm, and successively released the enterprise-grade SSD D7-P5520, D7-P5620, and the consumer-grade SSD P41 Plus, which is generally considered the sequel. to Intel 670p. It also showed the SSD PLC 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.
Areas that cannot be dominated” Entering 2019, the NAND market price continued to slow, and Intel’s storage business continued to lose money in four quarters of the year, which was a burden that they had to get rid of on it, especially when the main business was sluggish.
After years of popularization, the unit price of SSD is getting cheaper and cheaper. In overseas markets, some 2TB SSDs have dropped below US$100. Analyst Bryan Ao from TrendForce, a well-known statistical agency, pointed out that 2TB SSDs with QLC particles will become a disruptor in the market next year. % probability that its price will be as low as under $80 by then.
In fact, the supply of NAND Flash memory particles that support SSD, MicroSD card, and eMMC storage products is still in a situation of oversupply. The agency expects that there will be a decrease of about 20% before the end of the year in order to clear the goods.
Statistics show that the current 1TB mechanical hard disk is generally about 2/3 of the price of a 1TB SSD, and the 2TB mechanical hard disk is generally almost half the price of a 2TB SSD. Analysts’ latest opinion is that, for 1TB at least, the price gap between SSDs and HDDs will start to flatten out next year, which could lead to more hate from users of lower capacity HDDs.
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