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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:

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List of reports from Forward Insights

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 ... \| more... Search inside this report	$1,499.00
Read Architectures for Multi-bit per cell NAND Flash Memories 9/1/2009 \| published by: Forward Insights This report explores the theory, circuit elements, timings, and key design features of the conventional interleaved architecture versus the all bitline sensing architecture. \| more... Search inside this report	$1,499.00
Graphics DRAM - A New Competitive Landscape 1/1/2010 \| published by: Forward Insights ... Hynix and Qimonda with a combined market share of greater than 90%. However, Qimonda’s insolvency in January 2009 has disrupted this oligopoly. In May, Micron announced its intention to enter the Graphics DRAM market, followed ... \| more... Search inside this report	$2,499.00
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 ... \| more...	$2,999.00
NAND Insights Q2/10: Outlook for 2011 6/1/2010 \| published by: Forward Insights ... by 120% this year compared to 2009. Positive market sentiment is likely to carry into 2011 with NAND flash manufacturers increasing supply next year. What will be the demand drivers for next year? And will ... \| more...	$2,999.00
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 ... \| 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 ... \| more...	$2,999.00
SSD Innovations 4/1/2010 \| published by: Forward Insights ... drives are primarily removable, low capacity, low cost storage for consumer media. The next frontier for NAND flash memory is as a hard disk drive replacement or an additional tier in the storage hierarchy. The ... \| more... Search inside this report	$3,499.00
Solid State Drives: Enabling MLC Technology in the Enterprise 11/1/2009 \| published by: Forward Insights ... SSD vendor announced that it will offer MLC]based enterprise SSDs. Are these products aimed at niche applications or do they suggest the beginnings of broader adoption of MLC technology in SSDs in the enterprise space? ... \| more...	$3,499.00
Emerging Memory Technologies 12/1/2009 \| published by: Forward Insights ... array transistor. In order to maintain the capacitor capacitance of 25fF, high aspect ratio structures and new high-k materials will be required as DRAM scales to 30nm. NOR flash memory faces challenges in channel length ... \| more... Search inside this report	$3,499.00
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 ... \| 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 ... \| more...	$3,999.00
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. \| 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. \| 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. ... \| more...	$3,999.00
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 ... \| more...	$3,999.00
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 ... \| 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 ... \| 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. \| more...	$4,250.00
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 ... \| more... Search inside this report	$4,999.00
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 ... \| more... Search inside this report	$6,499.00
Key NAND Flash Memory Design Intellectual Property 7/1/2009 \| published by: Forward Insights ... identifies important intellectual property related to sensing architectures, source voltage noise compensation, programming algorithms, disturbs reduction, temperature compensation, high voltage switch, coding schemes and error correction codes from Hynix, Micron, Samsung, SanDisk, STMicroelectronics and Toshiba. \| more... Search inside this report	$9,999.00
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 ... \| more...	$10,000.00