According to the latest research conducted by DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, indicates that with the fall in prices of solid-state drive (SSD) is accelerating the pace of adoption by notebook manufacturers.<!–more–> And, it expects that the SSD market penetration in the notebook category will be over 30% for 2015 and also will surpass 50% market share by 2017.
“The OEM market for Client-SSDs has experienced a rapid price decline due to the increasing adoption of SSDs based on triple level cell (TLC) technology,” said DRAMeXchange’s Assistant Vice President Sean Yang. “Among the OEMs, Samsung Electronics Co. especially has been aggressively promoting TLC-based SSDs since their memory chips and 
controller chips are developed in house.” Starting in 2014, the rising price-performance ratios of Samsung’s TLC products have led to a rapid expansion of their share in the OEM market for PCs.
In terms of interface application, Intel is becoming more active in ensuring its processors supports different SSD architectures via different interfaces. Interfaces based on the high-speed serial bus standard PCIe are steadily making inroads in the market that is dominated by interfaces belonging to the mature SATA 3.0 technology. Both MacBook Pro and Air series adopted PCIe in 2014, encouraging other PC-OEMs to design products with the same interface and urge NAND flash suppliers to develop SSDs that match the application.
The market penetration of PCIe interfaces will be around 20%, based on DRAMeXchange’s projection. And with Skylake and subsequent Intel processor platforms supporting SSDs with PCIe interfaces, SSD controller chip vendors will roll out more related, price-competitive ICs. The SSD market therefore will see a noticeable increase in the share of products with PCIe interfaces next year.
