Published:2011/2/24 19:27:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC
Although the market has changed its attention form rotary storage technology to the solid technology, the media tablet will never constitute a threat to the dominant position of HDD in the future three years. The shipment of the HDD used movable personal computer, includes the laptop computer and netbook, will reach 235 million sets in the year of 2010. The growth rate is 15.2% when compared with last year. The shipment of tablet computer will increase to 63 million in this year. Although the growth rate is 270.6%, it can not erode the domain of DD in the storage industry.
The shipment gap between these two products will be small in the year of 2014, but the shipment of the HDD is still two times of the tablet computer. The data of personal computer shipment is surprising, but it is only a part of the movable HDD market which includes the alternate and substitute HDD. Just like the movable PC, the quantity of the movable HDD is also increasing.
These tendencies indicate that the HDD is still very strong, even the tablet computer is very popular, and there will more many kinds of computer. The sales of netbook are decreasing recently, which has influenced the entire HDD market. The storage capacity and productivity of the tablet computer are limited, so it is unable to replace the PC. The prospect of the tablet computer is positive in the future, but the demand for PC is still robust.
The tablet computer is regarded as a consumer device, but it will have the similar productivity if it is based on innovation. Innovation will make the device use the expense flash memory, and then the price will be increased. This situation is beneficial to HDD industry. However, there is an opposite situation which is good for the tablet computer. The device will be applied as the on-line storage medium of "cloud". With this application, its price will never be so expensive. The related integrated circuit is MAX9744.
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