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Forward Insights provides independent, insightful market and technical research, consulting and information services focusing on semiconductor memories and solid state storage. The company offers unparalleled depth and understanding of the strategic, market and technical complexities of the semiconductor memory landscape.

Forward Insights offers a unique and comprehensive strategic, financial, market and technical perspective on the semiconductor memory industry. The professional services offered include:

Strategy Consulting
Financial and Investment Due Diligence
Financial & Cost Analysis
Market Forecasts
Technology Analysis
Competitive Analysis
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List of reports from Forward Insights

SSD Insights Q1/13: Elasticity of Demand 3/1/2013 \| published by: Forward Insights ... price declines in 2012, client SSD pricing fell below $1/GB stimulating datacenter demand and a strong year over year increase in average capacity in the channel. Please Note: this is delivered as a Zip file. \| read more...	$4,250.00
NAND Insights Q1/13 - Déjà Vu 3/1/2013 \| published by: Forward Insights ... Despite the overall decline in revenues, the eMMC market grew 58% on the back of strong tablet and smartphone shipments. The latest NAND Insights Q1/13 report, NAND Insights Q1/13 - Déjà Vu provides an extended ... \| read more...	$4,250.00
A Magnetic Moment: Prospects for MRAM Technology, Markets and Applications 1/1/2013 \| published by: Forward Insights ... technologies has occurred over the last decade. Non-charge storage-based memories such as FeRAM and MRAM offer fast RAM-like performance along with non-volatility and extremely high endurance. Although in commercial production, both suffer from high costs ... \| read more...	$14,999.00
NAND Insights Q4/12 - Moving into the Black 12/1/2012 \| published by: Forward Insights Production cuts and inventory management, and the release of new mobile devices for the seasonal holiday demand, has resulted in a jump in NAND prices ensuring a profitable fourth quarter for all NAND flash suppliers. \| read more...	$4,250.00
SSD Insights Q4/12: Client Down, Enterprise Up 12/1/2012 \| published by: Forward Insights ... has been revised downward due to slower than expected uptake of ultrabooks while enterprise SSD outlook has been upgraded due to positive uptake trends in Q3/12. Please Note: this is delivered as a Zip file. \| read more...	$4,250.00
Applications for Low Density SLC NAND Flash Memory 9/1/2012 \| published by: Forward Insights ... consequence, NOR flash manufacturers are looking to grow by actively expanding their product portfolios to include low density (<16Gb) SLC NAND flash memory. Applications for Low Density SLC NAND Flash Memory examines the demand for ... \| read more...	$5,499.00
SSD Insights Q3/12: NVMe Rising 9/1/2012 \| published by: Forward Insights ... enterprise portends its advance into the client space. This report provides a detailed forecast of the SSD market and the transition of client SSDs to PCIe. Please Note: this is delivered as a Zip file. \| read more...	$4,250.00
NAND Insights Q3/12 - Reduced Speed Ahead 9/1/2012 \| published by: Forward Insights ... better supply-demand balance in the fourth quarter. However, market uncertainty and less aggressive technology roadmap next year portends a marked slowdown in bit growth in 2013. Please Note: this is delivered as a Zip file. \| read more...	$4,250.00
SSD Insights Q2/12: 3-bit per cell SSDs - A gamechanger? 6/1/2012 \| published by: Forward Insights ... the main storage medium in PCs. As a consequence, PC OEMs have resorted to caching solutions as an economic way to improve system performance, however, the performance benefits still lag that of a pure SSD. ... \| read more...	$4,250.00
NAND Insights Q2/12 - Waiting for a Rebound 6/1/2012 \| published by: Forward Insights ... possibly in the red. As a consequence, all NAND flash capacity expansion plans have been put on hold raising prospects for a better 2H/12 and 2013. Please Note: this is delivered as a Zip file. \| read more...	$4,250.00
SSD Supplier Status 2011 5/1/2012 \| published by: Forward Insights ... channel, enterprise SATA, PCIe, SAS, and Fiber Channel SSDs. In addition, a breakdown of the SSD controller revenues for both merchant and captive suppliers is provided. Please Note: this is delivered as a Zip file. \| read more...	$4,250.00
SSD Insights Q1/12 - Caching Solutions to Enable Growth of Ultra-thin Notebooks 3/1/2012 \| published by: Forward Insights ... ultra-thin notebook PCs. In the enterprise, SAS and PCIe SSDs will record strong growth but SATA SSD volumes will remain dominant due to strong demand from datacenters. Please Note: this is delivered as a Zip ... \| read more...	$4,250.00
ECC and Signal Processing Technology for Solid State Drives and Multi-bit per cell NAND Flash Memories 1/1/2012 \| published by: Forward Insights ... biggest consumer of NAND flash memories, this was clearly a strategic acquisition. The tie-up follows a less widely known acquisition of Storage Genetics by Micron Technology in 2010. Both Anobit and Storage Genetics were developing ... \| read more...	$6,499.00
Solid State Drive Technology and Applications: A Primer 12/1/2011 \| published by: Forward Insights ... The report provides a detailed overview of the technology, architecture and reliability of SSDs as well as techniques for improving the performance and endurance. The advantages and disadvantages of SSDs versus HDDs in PCs and ... \| read more...	$1,499.00
SSD Insights Q4/11 - Opportunity Knocks 11/1/2011 \| published by: Forward Insights ... bases, flex actuator assemblies, motors, pivot cartridges, suspensions, HGA connectors, etc. Production of HDDs will be heavily impacted in the latter half of Q4/11 going into 2012 and the effects of the HDD shortage will ... \| read more...	$3,999.00
NAND Insights Q4/11 - Accelerating SSD Demand in 2012 11/1/2011 \| published by: Forward Insights ... 2012. NAND Insights Q4/11: Accelerating SSD Demand in 2012 provides an outlook of the application demand drivers as well as the architecture and technology trends including SLC/MLC/TLC and 3D NAND. Please Note: this is delivered ... \| read more...	$3,999.00
Low Density SLC NAND Flash Memory in Embedded Applications 7/1/2011 \| published by: Forward Insights ... diversify beyond removable storage applications to consumer, industrial and computing applications, each with its own specific requirements in terms of performance, features and density. Since 2006, MLC technology has become mainstream with SLC technology occupying ... \| read more...	$4,999.00
NAND Insights Q2/11 - Smartphones, Tablets Drive eMMC Growth 6/1/2011 \| published by: Forward Insights ... manufacturers but in 2011, module and flash card manufacturers are expected to enter the market as the traditional removable storage market slows. NAND flash manufacturers will continue to ramp new facilities in the 2nd half ... \| read more...	$3,999.00
NAND Insights - Outlook for 2012 3/1/2011 \| published by: Forward Insights ... for smartphones, tablets and SSDs are expected to encourage NAND flash manufacturers to continue to invest in increasing production capacity. This report provides a quarterly supply-demand outlook for 2012 and applications forecast out to 2015. ... \| read more...	$3,999.00
What's after NAND? 1/1/2011 \| published by: Forward Insights ... PCM) offer the promise of continued increases in storage capacities and lower cost per bit necessary to enable new and emerging data storage applications. What’s after NAND? Provides an in-depth analysis of the post-planar floating ... \| read more...	$10,000.00
SSD Insights - The Catalyst 12/1/2010 \| published by: Forward Insights ... In the enterprise, SSDs continued on a positive trend with growth in SATA, FC/SAS and PCIe shipments in both the server and storage array in Q3/10. Please Note: this is delivered as a Zip file. \| read more...	$3,999.00
NAND Market - Rational Exuberance? 12/1/2010 \| published by: Forward Insights ... However, the increased wafer capacity as well as 2xnm transition and 3-bits per cell technology will create pricing pressure at the beginning and end of 2011. Please Note: this is delivered as a Zip file. \| read more...	$3,999.00
NAND Insights Q3/10: V-shape Recovery 9/1/2010 \| published by: Forward Insights ... the iPad with Android or Windows-based tablets, the demand dynamics appear to be favourable next year. As a result, the last two years of underinvestment will end in 2011 as NAND flash manufacturers ramp wafer ... \| read more...	$2,999.00
SSD Insights Q3/10: Enterprise Accelerates 9/1/2010 \| published by: Forward Insights ... Second generation hybrid hard disk drives were announced by Seagate. Do HHDs represent a credible threat to SSDs? And Anobit introduced an enterprise SSD utilizing its Memory Signal Processor. How significant is this technology and ... \| read more...	$2,999.00
SSD Insights Q2/10: After the iPad - Notebooks? 6/1/2010 \| published by: Forward Insights ... central to producing a cool, thin, lightweight and power conserving device has been the incorporation of NAND flash memory as a storage medium. Now that the iPad has set the bar in utilizing NAND flash ... \| read more...	$2,999.00

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