The Solid State Drive industry has grown at an explosive rate and in the lead we have semiconductor giant Samsung. Samsung was the leader back in 2007 already, but in 2008 it expanded this lead even further. The numbers that has been released by Gartner refers to the total SSD market, where all solutions from integrated SSDs in notebooks are mixed with powerful high-end solutions for workstations and servers. Samsung offers a broad assortment of SSD products and in 2009 it can look back and see that the market share grew to 31.7% in 2008.
Second place is held be the relatively unknown STEC followed by SanDisk on third and Intel on fourth. A summarize of the top 10 SSD manufacturers can be found below;
It is interesting to see how the SSD market is divided and in 2008 55% of all SSDs sales happened in the USA, while Europa, the middle east and Africa had 22%. Japan had 12% and Asia 11%.
Most SSDs are found in regular PCs and most often in sizes between 64 to 128GB, which we expect to move to up the scale in 2009.
