January 17, 2020
New Entrants to Autonomous Vehicle Solutions Will Drive the Market in the Coming Decade
Autonomous driving is one of the most important applications for semiconductors in the next five years. The artificial intelligent (AI) chip in the…
December 1, 2019
New Opportunities in Automotive Electronics – Innovations from Tesla’s Cybertruck
Tesla launched its new electric vehicle (EV) in November 2019, the Cybertruck, which has several new features, such as the sharp-edged design, the…
November 8, 2019
Expected Memory Market Rebound in 2020 and Continuous Investment Can Strengthen Samsung’s Leading Position in Memory
Samsung Electronics announced that it achieved memory revenue of 13.26 trillion won (USD 11.48 billion) in Q3 2019, up 7.8% sequentially, but down…
October 30, 2019
Intel Q3 2019: NSG Business Continues to Lose Money But Promising Signs Emerge
Counterpoint has been tracking Intel's Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group (NSG) performance for years since it’s one of top NAND flash players.…
September 9, 2019
Rising UFS Shipments Opens Up Opportunity for Western Digital and Toshiba Memory Corporation
The share of eMCP in mobile memory unit shipments has declined for the fourth consecutive quarter in Q2 2019 to 58.9% from 65.4% in Q2 2018,…
August 13, 2019
SEMICON West 2019: New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies MRAM, PCM and RRAM to Revolutionize Future AI Workloads
Counterpoint Analysts were invited by Applied Materials, one of the leading semiconductor manufacturing equipment vendors, to participate in the AI…
August 1, 2019
SK Hynix to Cut DRAM Production and Reduce Wafer Start of NAND Flash
SK Hynix will begin to cut DRAM production from Q4 2019 as well as reduce its NAND flash wafer start by 15% as compared to its 2018 output. Last…
July 10, 2019
Mainstream Interface of Mobile Memory Is Transforming to Meet The Demand For New Applications
Consumers’ expectation for better performance will continue to drive up the demand for high-speed and high-bandwidth memory in smartphones in the…
June 5, 2019
Another Set of Tariffs on Chinese Imports to the US will Further Slowdown Recovery of NAND Flash Market
The US is likely to impose high tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports, including all handsets manufactured or assembled in China. The tariffs,…
May 10, 2019
Emerging Memory Supplier YMTC to Challenge Global Leaders such as Samsung, SK Hynix & Western Digital in Next Five Years
In 2018, the global NAND flash market reached US$58 billion. Mobile phones and PCs account for 42.1% and 16.2% of the overall NAND market demand,…