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05/10/10
Hybrid Memory-The Memory Market's New High Value Product Category
What is Hybrid Memory and why will it move the semiconductor industry forward?
This report outlines the market opportunities, market and financial drivers, financial opportunities, near-term technology enablers required for introduction, and technology hurdles and market challenges for advanced HM devices.
Hybrid Memory Promises High Impact on Consumer Electronics
How can key technology events be evaluated to predict Consumer Electronics Trends?
This report examines steps to acceptance and success of a consumer product. HM devices can have a significant revenue growth impact for new memory products for Consumer Electronics. HM devices with their inherent flexibility promise to significantly alter the architecture of Consumer devices, shift BOM (Bill of Material) costs to variable purchase plug-in HM devices, enhance competitive differentiation, and provide for early adoption of new memory technologies.
Conventional Memory and the Impact of Hybrid Memory
How does memory technology adapt to enable the rapidly evolving consumer mobile market?
Hybrid Memory (HM) provides numerous advantages to OEMs as well as to memory manufacturers. By using HM versus conventional discrete memory in a design, the risk of adoption of any new memory type would be reduced. Early confirmation of acceptability reduces investment risk, and the period required to become a mainstream product. Multiple packaging options allow greater flexibility in feature sets, and in the mix of volatile and non-volatile memory solutions.Market acceptance of HM concepts in the Consumer segment demonstrates the current state of the art and confirms the attributes of flexibility and lower manufacturing costs.Market acceptance of HM concepts in the Consumer segment demonstrates the current state of the art and confirms the attributes of flexibility and lower manufacturing costs.
The Impact of Hybrid Memory on the ASSP Market
Why is Hybrid Memory impacting the ASSP Market?
In the next decade, as designs cross the 30nm lithography boundary and approach 12nm, HM devices that incorporate standard memory, new memory, logic, processors, and analog on a single fabrication process will again transform the platform IC market and many types of HM devices will displace current ASSP devices as a preferred choice for custom platform IC products.
Four Generations of HM Enable Now and Future Smartphone Market
How can each of the four generations of HM enhance the features of the Smartphone?
HM devices will accelerate the shift in Smartphone system architecture by moving BOM costs from the core phone to the accessory Hybrid Memory devices. This will accomplish the rapid transition to a Cognitive Radio Smartphone that will use the wireless spectrum more efficiently. HM will enable vendors to add functionality without incurring additional base handset costs.
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05/10/10
Details of additional reports will be made available as reports are competed.
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Hybrid Memory Device Series of Studies Addresses the Convergence of Three Significant Future Trends
As demand changes what happens to the supply side?
Changes in technology and component demand also causes changes in the supply side infrastructure. The sweet spot for memory demand is clearly shifting toward more powerful handheld devices with expanded functions.As we move toward a new target market, the value proposition of the semiconductor technologies also shifts. New materials and equipment are necessary to accelerate these new memory technologies into high volume production.
Convergent and Edison identify the opportunities for a new product class of Hybrid Memory technologies in an expanding set of reports. Contact us for more details.
We are pleased to announce the availability of additional new reports written in conjunction with Edison Labs LLC that identifies Hybrid Memory devices as a dynamic and growing class of new semiconductor products. Hybrid Memory devices incorporate standalone memory (DRAM, FLASH, SRAM, and new emerging memory technologies) with logic or analog circuits into a single IC device. These devices can be used as a standalone advanced memory device or with all the enhanced digital/analog features that additional logic can bring.
The ability of the Hybrid Memory devices to provide application-specific high-performance memory defines its hybrid qualities and also enables rapid market acceptance of this new product category. Hybrid Memory devices will enable an expanded set of performance attributes over the next decade. Because these devices will create new Intellectual Property and competitive advantages for those who enter the market early, this report details market opportunities where the first mover will gain a large and sustaining advantage over companies that wait until the trends are well established. The price of the initial report is $4,995, which can be applied to the $35,000 for the complete set of 10 reports focusing on this exciting new product opportunity.
Contact us at bobm@convergentsemiconductors.com or sherryg@convergentsemiconductors.com for more details.
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05/11/10
The memory market is once again attempting to fund impending crucial large capital investments in a mature market burdened by commodity pricing. Opportunities for memory products have been characterized as very competitive markets of very great size, but typically with profit margins that tend to rise and fall according to market conditions.
While this cycle is generally regarded as an economic driver for the semiconductor industry as a whole, the model is more closely associated with the memory market due to the increased amplitudes of the cycles. With limited opportunities to differentiate memory products, commodity pricing is now an unchanging market characteristic. With the historic trend toward a single standard product that supports the widest number of applications, these market characteristics have become accepted as the signature model of memory production.
Even though current supply/demand trends are temporarily favorable to the memory manufacturers, the question to ask is whether this trend toward feast or famine can be changed for companies that shift their product strategies toward Hybrid Memory. We believe that Hybrid Memory can provide such products and enable significant new revenue streams while generating higher profits for memory suppliers.
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05/11/10
There are geographic regions of the world that are expected to adopt what is currently called the smartphone at a greater rate than any consumer product to date. The interesting fact is that the adoption is so high not because of the phone's features, but because of its applications. As Google said when it introduced the Android platform in November 2007, the announcement was regarding "...the Open Handset Alliance and Android...more significant and ambitious than a single phone. In fact, through the joint efforts of the members of the Open Handset Alliance, we hope Android will be the foundation for many new phones and will create an entirely new mobile experience for users, with new applications and new capabilities we can't imagine today."
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