Monthly Memory & Flash Market Watch

WD has released its highest capacity consumer drive with the 22TB (*) My Book desktop HDD, which is able to consolidate data from a variety of users’ storage devices into one organized and easy to access location. The company’s My Book Duo series is also available in a 44TB (*) capacity, equipped with RAID-optimized company drives that enables maximum speed and capacity. My Book Duo can be reconfigured to RAID-1 for redundancy (data mirroring) or used as 2 independent drives (JBOD) with the included software.

SK Hynix’s 2022 operating profit plunged 44% as its first operating loss in over ten years, despite revenue increasing by 4% compared to 2021. The loss result was compounded by lowered demand for memory chips and a significant drop in memory pricing, which also reflected the overall downward spiral of the PC industry during the second half of 2022. However, the company forecasts market conditions to gradually improve in the latter part of 2023 and expects to see a quick turnaround, with the world’s best technologies for DDR5 for data centers and 176-layer NAND flash-based enterprise SSD.