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China's Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: Seven of the world's top 10 smartphone vendors hail from China as does PC giant Lenovo, which is driving up the amount of NAND flash and DRAM the country consumes. This year alone, China is expected to purchase nearly 30% of the world's NAND flash and 21% of its DRAM, according to a report from TrendForce. Additionally, state-backed companies are trying to break into Western markets with SSDs. For example, Sage Microelectronics (SageMicro), a four-year-old company based in Hangzhou, China, plans to release an 8TB SSD next month that will be based on eMMC flash, and it said it will release a 10TB drive next year.
Update: 10/16 15:11 GMT by T : Note this interesting highlight from the second story linked above: SageMicron is selling not just drives that emphasize capacity over speed, but also a feature that will do doubt appeal to government agencies or private citizens intent on replicating Mission Impossible-style data wiping. The company's "Smart Destruction" function "can be set to erase encryption keys, perform a drive erase or physically fry the memory chips with a pulse of high voltage ... [and] can be triggered using a digital timer, a mobile phone instruction, or by simply pressing a button. 'Yes, it actually smokes sometimes when you push the button,' [Sage U.S. sales director Troy Rutt] said. 'People like that.'"
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Knock-offs? Knock-off of what? The Chinese drives are not knock-offs, they are uniquely branded. You seem to think that some manufacturer, or country, has a universal claim on electronic storage devices.
It will be cheap, however the statement should read:
China, plans to release an 8TB* SSD next month
*8GB operating in loop mode
It showed great growth up to 30%, but then it went back to the beginning and started overwriting itself.
Like I said over the years, China is being held down by its currency peg. They have removed it and now Chinese currency will be able to go up when the USD will go down, allowing Chinese not to absorb USA the inflation created by the USA Federal reserve and the government. I fully expect Chinese to start consuming all of the products they produce, not just Flash SSD and the prices for all consumable goods will go down in Chinese currency but up in other currencies, as the Chinese money will go up in value relative to other currencies.
Stock up on various non-perishable goods.
You can't handle the truth.
The summary says it's eMMC. MMC is basically SD cards. eMMC is embedded MMC - basically an SD card built-in.
Right now on Newegg you can get a pair of 128GB cards (256GB) for $69.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
So $280 per TB is current best pricing for MMC in Newegg.
Compare an actual SSD. Low-end best price at Newegg is $343 for a TB ($300 for 960GB), with better quality SSDs costing over $1,000.
Neither is TERRIBLY expensive for 8TB, if you really need 8TB of flash, but 8 1TB true SSDs would cost about the same as 8TB of MMC.
Wow, China really is very different from "western" countries.
In China, most companies are effectively state owned.
In the west, most states are effectively company owned.
China prices products in $US so to devalue their currency just earns them more of their own currency.
If they devalue, they earn the same US dollars, but pay less in wages and also for any raw materials that are sourced locally. So their profit margins go up, at least temporarily, until the resulting inflation starts pushing up wages and local prices.
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2990446/data-storage-solutions/chinese-ssd-maker-eyes-us-market-for-8tb-drive-intro.html