Taipei,Sept.28,2012(CENS)--The increasingly high penetration of Solid State Drive(SSD)in Ultrabooks are expected to further drive up many Taiwanese suppliers`revenues this year,according to industry sources.
Over 85%new Ultrabooks adopt SSDs,and Apple`s new iMac notebook PCs are further drive the overall SSD market revenue up by 60%this year to record about US$3 billion,from about US$1.8 billion in 2011.
Lite-On IT Corp.has won SSD orders from four Ultrabook vendors,and the firm`s SSD shipments in the first eight months grew more than 200%from the same period of last year.The firm aims to tap into the SSD supply chains of the world`s top-five Ultrabook vendors this year.
Lite-On IT had consolidate revenue of NT$4.64 billion(US$154.7 million)in August,up 10.4%month-on-month(MoM);while both of the company`s SSD revenue and shipments in the month grew by more than 40%MoM.The firm`s SSD revenue has accounted for 10%of overall.In the first eight months,the firm`s SSD revenue grew by 300%YoY,and shipments 200%.
DRAMeXchange,a business division of TrendForce Corp.,pointed out that this year the SSD market would show a high growth trend,though sales of such products in the second quarter were worse-than-expected due mainly to the poor global economic performance.In addition to the 128GB to 256GB SSDs,the company said,smaller-capacity SSDs are increasingly popular in price-competitive Ultrabook models.
Several companies in Taiwan have been aggressively developing business deployments in SSD products,including memory-module makers Adata Technology Co.,Ltd.,Transcend Information Inc.,and Apacer Technology Inc..They are actively developing PC-use SSDs,while also venturing into higher-margin industrial-application SSDs.
DRAMeXchange forecast that more than 85%of new Ultrabook models would introduce the SSD hybrid solutions by simultaneously using 24G/32G SSD and conventional mechanical hard drives.
