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Six Hot Storage Startups
(Enterprise Storage Forum, 3/27/13)
“Most SSDs are fast a very high percentage of the time, but suffer slowdowns of a few orders of magnitude from time to time as internal conflicts cause all operations to come to a halt,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Big Data Storage Buying Guide (Enterprise Storage Forum, 3/21/13) “It's time for data center managers to seriously consider the approach they need to take — does it need to be all flash, or should they use caching and a smaller amount of flash storage, perhaps in the form of solid state drives (SSDs)? asked Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Freescale Semiconductor looks to ARM strategy (dealReporter, 3/19/13) Tom Starnes, analyst at Objective Analysis, which focuses on semiconductor market research, said firms can still deliver differentiated products with the ARM architecture...
EMC Unveils New Lineup of Xtrem Flash PCIe Storage Cards (eWeek, 3/5/13) Solid-state storage analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK in a forecast 18 months ago that the PCIe interface would become dominant in the…
Violin Memory expands its strategic alliance with Toshiba for Flash-based data centers (VentureBeat, 3/4/13) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said that the more deeply Toshiba is involved with Violin Memory, the less trouble it will be for…
Violin Memory moves into server-side flash with low-cost PCIe cards (TechTarget, 3/4/13) SSD analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said the Toshiba relationship will help Violin if there is a NAND shortage, which he expects to happen this year.
Analysis: Expect consolidation, uptick in flash arrays in 2013 (TechTarget 1/22/13) Jim Handy, SSD analyst for Objective Analysis, said all-flash array startups will have a tough time surviving…
Don't Miss This Sector in 2013 (Money Morning, 1/14/13) Even Forbes columnist Jim Handy - an industry analyst and former chip-industry insider who predicted a flat 2012 in the face of industry bullishness - is expecting a strong semi-sector showing in the New Year.
32-Bit Microcontrollers Hit New Lows (Microprocessor Report, Invited Article, 1/7/13) Microcontrollers have continued to play a large role in managing and controlling power consumed by other components and systems while, like other electronic components, reducing their own power consumption.
New SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative Projects Featured at Storage Visions 2013 (SNIA News Summary, 1/4/13) Jim Handy (Objective Analysis) who will examine how new storage developments are driving new storage systems with SSSI member panelists Jim Pappas (Intel), Paul Wassenberg (Marvell), Mike Fitzpatrick (Toshiba), Paul Luse (Intel), and Sumit Puri (LSI).
Ancient Aliens Fail: Electronics Industry Looks to 2013 (Electronic Design, Invited Article, 12/17/12) Is the PC becoming the WC – the Work Computer?… Many silicon vendors have backed away from the cutthroat smart phone industry…
Industry View: Objective Analysis on Cypress, Ramtron (EE Times, 10/15/12) We talked with analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis to get his take on the dynamics of the deal and what it might mean for the memory market.
Violin Plays Requiem for the Dying Hard Drive (Wired, 10/23/12) “Violin has gone from being a very technical company run by engineers to being a company that knows business and PR,” says Jim Handy, an analyst with research outfit Objective Analysis.
The 3D die stack tack: Toshiba builds towering column of flash (The Register, 10/15/12) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said; "It makes sense that ReRAM would be used in performance applications
NetApp OEM deal helps GridIron widen SAN accelerator platform (TechTarget, 10/1/12) Jim Handy, director at Objective Analysis, said the NetApp partnership gives GridIron credibility.
Cadence Reveals World's First 28nm DDR4 Memory Controller (X-bit Labs, 9/10/12) “ASIC designers who want to take advantage of that pricing are likely to need a lot of help putting a reliable interface on their products,” said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Shortages Surface in NAND Flash (Chip Design, 9/7/12) Prices for NAND hit $0.31/GB in June, but they went back up to $0.36/GB in August, according to Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis, a research firm.
Cadence Announces Industry's First DDR4 Design IP Solutions Are ... (Nanowerk LLC, 9/4/12) “DDR4 is going to be the next big thing in DRAMs, but its signaling is challenging to handle,” said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Swissbit Readies Next Growth Phase (Chip Design Magazine, 8/31/12) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis, a research firm, said that Swissbit is well positioned in the market.
MLC NAND-based Embedded SSDs operate from -40 to +85°C (ThomasNet, 8/24/12) “Until now, embedded systems that required industrial temperature solid state storage had to use more expensive SLC NAND," said Jim Handy, principal analyst, Objective Analysis.
IBM buys solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (ElectroIQ, 8/16/12) “This acquisition will give leading solid state performance to a company that firmly believes that solid state will become a new layer between storage and memory,” said Jim Handy of analyst firm Objective Analysis.
LSI SandForce SF-2200/2100 Client Flash Storage Processors Debut (Benchmark Reviews, 8/15/12) “Client computing customers are increasingly turning to the benefits of flash-based products to accelerate application performance and deliver an enhanced user experience,” said Jim Handy, SSD analyst for Objective Analysis.
Micron's Elpida acquisition: Analysts weigh in (Solid State Technology, 7/7/12) Micron expects to grow to 21% market share in memory semiconductors, overtaking Hynix (16%) and drawing closer to #1 Samsung (34%), estimates Objective Analysis’ Jim Handy and Lane Mason.
Micron ‘fesses up: Yes, we plan to eat limping DRAMurai warrior (The Register, 7/4/12) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis says Micron “will also increase its mobile DRAM share to about one quarter of the market, which would be a few percentage points ahead of Hynix and about half of Samsung's share.”
Elpida, Rexchip purchases will make Micron second-largest DRAM Manufacturer (Idaho Business Review, 7/2/12) “Size matters in this business these days,” said Lane Mason, memory market analyst with Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif.
Micron's DRAM buyout makes it a key Apple supplier (ComputerWorld, 7/2/12) Jim Handy, director of research firm Objective Analysis, said that with DRAM marketplace revenues growing at rate of about 5% year over year, Micron could not have afforded to build a new fabrication facility.
Micron buying Elpida: report (Idaho Business Review, 6/29/12) Whether Micron buys Elpida depends on how Micron pays, such as with additional stock or debt, said Lane Mason, memory market analyst with Objective Analysis, Los Gatos, Calif.
Flash Drives Replace Disks At Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox (Wired, 6/13/12) In 2011, according to Jim Handy, an analyst with research outfit Objective Analysis, businesses purchased an estimated 7.9 million SSDs that connect to servers using the serial-ATA interface — i.e., the interface that traditional hard drives use.
LSI First to Publicly Demonstrate SSDs with Toshiba 19nm and Intel 20nm Flash Memories (Sacramento Bee, 6/4/12) “SSD users want to benefit from the significant cost advantages of the leading flash processes, but most SSD controllers can't support the complexities of the most advanced chips,” said Jim Handy, SSD analyst for Objective Analysis.
Foundries Expand Embedded Memory Portfolios (Chip Design, 5/30/12) Given those scenarios, embedded memory is becoming even more important in designs, said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis, a research firm.
Flash Drives Replace Disks At Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox (Wired, 6/13/12) In 2011, according to Jim Handy, an analyst with research outfit Objective Analysis, businesses purchased an estimated 7.9 million SSDs that connect to servers using the serial-ATA interface — i.e., the interface that traditional hard drives use.
LSI First to Publicly Demonstrate SSDs with Toshiba 19nm and Intel 20nm Flash Memories (Sacramento Bee, 6/4/12) “SSD users want to benefit from the significant cost advantages of the leading flash processes, but most SSD controllers can't support the complexities of the most advanced chips,” said Jim Handy, SSD analyst for Objective Analysis.
Foundries Expand Embedded Memory Portfolios (Chip Design, 5/30/12) Given those scenarios, embedded memory is becoming even more important in designs, said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis, a research firm.
Will Power Problems Curtail Processor Progress? (IEEE Computer, May 2012) “Facing the challenges of power forces us to be far more efficient in everything about our designs,” said analyst Tom Starnes of market research firm Objective Analysis.
Talk from the hip at Microchip (EETimes, 5/7/12) Tom Starnes, embedded processor analyst at Objective Analysis, believes that Microchip has always done a good job “of making their MCUs accessible to ‘the little guy’…
Intel Ships New SSD 330 Series, but Limits It to 180GB Storage (PC World, 4/16/12) The new drives could be targeted at those who want to upgrade storage on older PCs from hard drives to SSDs, said Jim Handy, director at analyst firm Objective Analysis.
Who wants Elpida and why? Analysts weigh in (EE Times, Invited Article, 4/11/12) No one needs more DRAM capacity. No one needs to make DRAMs in Japan with the yen at 82. No one needs the tool set that Elpida has…
PCIe Encroaching On SAN Space (Network Computing, 4/11/12) Jim Handy, an SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, calls PCIe “an interesting and complex issue.”
There's More To Enterprise SSDs Than Just Speed (Network Computing, 4/10/12) Organizations that are purchasing solid-state storage are doing so typically to solve speed problems, remarks Jim Handy, analyst, Objective Analysis
Intel ships SSDs that help laptops boot faster (Computerworld, 4/5/12) Offering smaller SSDs that act as a temporary storage cache to get computers started is a cost-effective way of getting SSD performance into laptops, said Jim Handy, director at Objective Analysis.
LSI Launches New Nytro PCIe Product Line (eWeek, 4/2/12) Solid-state storage analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis has forecast that the PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise SSD market in 2012…
Intel cashes in its chips with Micron, bets on post-flash riches (The Register, 3/2/12) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis reckons the explanation is straightforward.
ISSCC from a memory analyst’s view (ElectroIQ, Invited Article, 3/2/12) As happens every year, ISSCC included several intriguing papers that showed not only directions that the market is heading, but also the challenges confronting chip makers as we approach the end of scaling for both NAND and DRAM.
Silicon Valley companies grapple with rising costs in China (San Jose Mercury News, 3/2/12) Jim Handy, principal analyst at Objective Analysis, said Apple can use its market dominance in certain products to drive down costs.
New White Paper on Achieving Enterprise Reliability With Solid-State Speed (MarketWatch, 2/29/12) Jim Handy, an analyst with the market research firm Objective Analysis, discusses how enterprises are increasingly turning to solid-state storage as their data volumes and performance needs intensify.
Texas Memory Systems Releases 24TB 1U Flash Storage Appliance (HPCwire, 2/28/12) “Flash memory has gained a lot of acceptance in the data center, but many don't use it today for a very good reason - the technology is worrisome,” said Jim Handy, SSD analyst at Objective Analysis.
Japan’s big memory chip maker Elpida files for bankruptcy protection (Venturebeat, 2/27/12) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said, “Elpida has good technology, but is simply unable to compete…
SanDisk Says Latest Chip Leads Data-Packing Pack (Wall Street Journal, 2/22/12) Jim Handy, an analyst who tracks the memory market for the firm Objective Analysis, estimates that SanDisk should have a cost per gigabyte of data in the range of 28 cents…
SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon off (Engadget, 2/22/12) Analyst Jim Handy estimates that the price per gigabyte for the tri-bit breed of flash could be as low as 28 cents…
EMC Unveils Solid-State Memory Card for Servers (eWeek, 2/8/12) Analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said his firm is forecasting that the NAND flash-powered PCIe interface will become dominant…
Micron (MU) CEO dies unexpectedly; company shares succession plan (ElectroIQ, 2/6/12) Appleton was "a great leader" and accomplished aerobat, said Jim Handy of OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS, Semiconductor Market Research, in an alert compiled with help from Lane Mason.
USB: 3.0 Taking Hold and Gearing for the Future (RTC Magazine December 2011) Tom Starnes, senior analyst for Objective Analysis, added that the USB design itself is cumbersome—what he calls “awkward compatibility.”
Chip Maker Elpida Looks Fried (Wall Street Journal, 1/29/12) But to be viable in the capital-intensive chip business, revenue must keep pace with the 12% yearly rise in the cost of building a plant, says analyst Jim Handy at semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis.
Confidence returns to oft-troubled Hynix (Korea Times, 1/24/12) “This year is likely to be a time when the DRAM market consolidates a little bit more,” said Jim Handy from Objective Analysis.
Micron Bolsters PCIe Virtualization With Virtensys Acquisition (eWeek, 1/20/12) Analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said his firm is forecasting that the NAND flash-powered PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise solid-state disk market in 2012, with unit shipments greater than the combined shipments of its SAS and Fibre Channel counterparts.
Forecast season gets underway (Electronics Weekly 1/20/12) The forecast season is well underway. Forbes contributor Jim Handy has compiled this useful list of where they stand as of now.
LSI Contributes as Everspin Realizes In Excess of 300% Growth in 2011 MRAM Shipments (The SSD Review, 1/19/12) “MRAM has gained acceptance as a superior alternative to non-volatile SRAM for RAID controllers, allowing Everspin to capitalize on its unique position as a high-volume MRAM supplier,” said Jim Handy, analyst with Objective Analysis.
MRAM firm claims 250 design wins in 2011 (EE Times 1/19/12) A statement released by Everspin Wednesday (Jan. 18) quoted Jim Handy, an analyst with market research and consulting firm Objective Analysis, saying MRAM has gained acceptance as a superior alternative to non-volatile SRAM for disk array controllers.
Memory Considerations for Faster MCUs (DigiKey, Invited Article, 1/18/12) Flash memory completely dominates microcontrollers (MCUs) now, but memory considerations have become more complex as the processors have advanced to 32-bit architectures and peripherals have become much more capable.
Could MRAM ultimately replace DRAM? (Network World, 1/18/12) MRAM has promise as a memory technology as it can scale down more effectively than DRAM and NAND flash, said Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analysis.
Everspin triples growth for magnetic RAM chips in 2011 (VentureBeat, 1/18/12) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said that MRAM has gained traction as a superior alternative to non-volatile SRAM chips for RAID controllers…
Dell plots PCIe-flash with memory pooling (ZDNet, 1/14/12) If Dell is planning a piece of kit that marries PCIe flash cards with RNA software, then substantial development work will have been required, Objective Analysis's Jim Handy said.
IBM Discovers How to Store Data in a Dozen Atoms (E-Commerce Times, 1/13/12) “What's interesting about this is, people have wondered where the brick wall is -- the maximum amount of data that can be stored magnetically,” Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, told TechNewsWorld.
Falling memory prices may bring irritating, intrusive devices (Computerworld, 1/8/12) NAND flash memory prices are expected to decline by half by the end of the year, from 70 cents a GB to 35 cents, keeping with historical price declines, said Jim Handy, chief analyst at market research firm Objective Analysis.
Fading Memory Saps Chip Makers (Wall Street Journal, 1/6/12) “Since the market isn't growing as fast as the companies need to grow to be able to afford the next fab, the companies pretty much have to savage each other and take market share away from each other,” says Jim Handy, analyst at semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis.
2012: Flash To Supplant Disk? (Network Computing, 12/29/11) The flooding in Thailand is not the only economic driver for SSDs, notes analyst Jim Handy, Objective Analysis.
Clouds Loom On The 2012 Semiconductor Horizon (Electronic Design, Invited Article, 12/27/11) Overall, 2012 will be characterized by a contraction in semiconductors compared to a weak 2011.
Apple's Purchase of Anobit Will Give It a Leg Up on Rivals (PC World, 12/27/11) Objective Analysis analyst Jim Handy said Apple won't be saving much money by owning its own controller technology.
Apple Buying Anobit as it Builds IP Portfolio (Chip Design, 12/22/11) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, said Apple wants to “prevent other companies from having access to the technology.
UCSD lab studies future changes to non-volatile memory technologies (Search Storage, 11/29/11) Jim Handy, founder and chief analyst at Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif., noted that Fusion-io and Schooner Information Technology Inc. have been writing code optimized for NAND flash technology.
New memory technologies generate attention as successors to NAND flash (Search Storage, 11/22/11) “These absolute geniuses in the R&D labs keep coming up with ways to push it just one or two more process steps, and they’ve been doing that for almost 10 years,” said Jim Handy, founder and chief analyst at Object Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif.
LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce (Computerworld, 10/27/11) “SandForce has sold SSD controllers to market leading companies including LSI’s partner Seagate,” said Objective Analysis analyst Jim Handy.
What flash needs is a little TLC (The Register, 10/20/11) According to Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, SanDisk is the TLC market leader.
New RAM shunts data into flash in power cuts (The Register, 10/19/11) Jim Handy, an analyst for Objective Analysis, said: “Data centres have addressed certain needs in the past by using battery-backed DRAM, an approach that leaves most data centre managers feeling vulnerable.”
Tablets, Smartphones to Get Speed Boost With New Memory (PCWorld, 9/29/11) In prior renditions of synchronous DRAM such as SDRAM, DDR and DDR2, JEDEC pushed hard on speed without worrying too much about power, said Jim Handy, director of Objective Analysis.
Flashy Stuff – Storage is All About Performance (Consumer Electronics Net, 9/16/11) Troy Winslow, of Intel, and Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis, agreed that even this growing market can't support all of the players and there will be consolidation and weak players will disappear.
MLC drives, PCIe technology give SSDs run for their money (SearchStorage.com, 8/26/11) “The drive makers have found ways to get past MLC’s limited endurance,” said Jim Handy, chief analyst at Objective Analysis
Texas Memory Systems challenges high-end hard drives with new flash product (Computerworld, 8/23/11) According to Jim Handy, an analyst at market research firm Objective Analysis, TMS has been one of the last holdouts in the enterprise MLC (eMLC) space, sticking with SLC-only products longer than others.
STEC Newest Flash Vendor to Move Into PCIe Market (eWeek, 8/11/11) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK his firm is forecasting that the PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise SSD market in 2012
eBay goes big on Nimbus all-SSD system (Computer Weekly, 8/10/11) Jim Handy, chief analyst with Objective Analysis, told Computer Weekly chief information officers are looking to replace their traditional disk drive systems with flash because of the significant performance advantage it offers.
LSI SSD Caching Software 2.0: The Write Stuff (Network Computing, 8/10/11) There are very few systems that already do this the way that CacheCade does, an approach commonly called automatic data placement, says analyst Jim Handy, Objective Analysis.
eBay Bets On Flash (Baseline 8/9/11) Jim Handy, chief analyst with Objective Analysis describes the eBay implementation as a “testimonial to the merits of flash in large-scale environments.”
Spansion Announces Industry's First 4Gb NOR Flash Memory (Sacramento Bee, 8/9/11) “Spansion has executed well delivering differentiated NOR Flash memory products based on its MirrorBit charge-trapping technology,” said Jim Handy, president, Objective Analysis.
Data Storage: Huge Digital Media Demand, PCIe Adoption Lead Storage Trends in Mid-2011 (eWeek, 8/4/11) Solid-state storage analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK his firm is forecasting that the PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise SSD market in 2012…
Samsung-Grandis spotlights MRAM potential, and NAND's chokehold (ElectroIQ, 8/3/11) Unfortunately for them, current memory technologies have continued to scale well enough to keep next-gen memory technologies at bay. Intel famously said back in 2003 that NAND flash wouldn't be able to scale past the 60nm node, and now it's at 20nm and counting, Jim Handy from Objective Analysis told SST.
Five Key Storage Trends Causing Talk in Mid-2011 (eWeek, 8/2/11) Analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK his firm is forecasting that the NAND flash-powered PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise solid-state disk market in 2012…
OCZ's New PCIe Flash Card Can Serve as Tier 1 Storage Layer (eWeeek, 8/2/11) Industry analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK his firm is forecasting that the PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise SSD market in 2012
eBay goes big on Nimbus all-SSD system (SearchStorage, 8/2/11) “That’s not the kind of price that people think of when they think of solid-state storage,” said Jim Handy, chief analyst at semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis.
OCZ Technology Launches Next Generation Z-Drive R4 PCI Express Solid State Storage Systems (MarketWatch, 8/2/11) “Objective Analysis forecasts that the PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise SSD market in 2012, with unit shipments greater than the combined shipments of its SAS and Fibre Channel counterparts,” said SSD analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
IBM Validates Violin’s 37X Faster Flash Memory Array (Information Week, 7/25/11) This is a significant development, said analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Recovery in Japan’s Supply Chain (Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU Radio (NPR), 7/19/11) “Think about the extraordinary power of this earthquake. It was a 9.0. It was 100 times as large as the earthquake that struck San Francisco back in 1989.”
Seagate Shipping Pulsar XT.2 Solid State Drive (Tom’s Hardware, 7/18/11) “Most SSD suppliers aren’t fully aware of the needs of the enterprise,” said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Could NAND flash kill DRAM in PCs? (Computerworld, 7/18/11) “Over time, the price/performance gap between these two technologies will widen, driving NAND to become the memory of choice in the PC,” said Jim Handy, the author of the study.
Seagate Begins to Ship Pulsar Solid-State Drives. (Xbit Laboratories, 7/18/11) “Seagate’s undeniable leadership in the enterprise HDD market has given the company a deep understanding of the necessity of data integrity and endurance,” said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Toshiba, SanDisk build fab to withstand earthquakes (IDG 7/12/11) Toshiba and competitor Samsung build “megafabs” for NAND flash, and Fab 5 is a very advanced manufacturing facility, said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
FlashSoft raises $3M for software that speeds data center processing (Venturebeat, 6/28/11) …sales of enterprise flash memory (solid state drives) are growing to 4 million units in 2015, up 50 times from 2010 numbers, according to market researcher Objective Analysis.
Mac OS X update supports SSD optimization (Computerworld – 6/28/11) Jim Handy, an analyst with market research firm Objective Analysis, said Apple's build-to-order systems will benefit from the TRIM command because the SSDs will no longer need to guess at what is valid data and what is no longer needed by the OS.
OCZ Introduces New Solid State Drive That Clocks 80000 IOPS (Network Computing, 6/21/11) However, Jim Handy, an analyst with the research firm Objective Analysis, cautions that these benchmarks are not from an independent firm because there aren't yet firms that do performance benchmarks on SSDs, as there are for, say, semiconductors.
OCZ Introduces Deneva 2 SSD-Series for Enterprise Applications (xBit Labs, 6/21/11) Objective Analysis forecasts for enterprise SSD unit shipments to grow at an average annual rate of 83%, nearly doubling every year," said Jim Handy, an SSD analyst with Objective Analysis.
Memory’s next big leap: solid-state drives (The Globe and Mail, 6/11/11) The market research company Objective Analysis has forecast the hybrid HDD market will grow to 600 million units by 2016, with $34-billion in revenue.
Probability chip start-up bought by Analog Devices (ZDNet UK, 6/15/11) “Analog Devices is pretty solid in high-quality analogue, though they seem to have backed away from the digital signal processing and microcontrollers/processors space that they were into five to 15 years ago,” Tom Starnes, an analyst at Objective Analysis, told ZDNet UK.
Future Of HDD Market Lies In Hybrid Drives (Information Week, 6/10/11) The drive has been very successful and Seagate anticipates that in five years, 80% of drives shipped will be hybrid drives, said Jim Handy, analyst with Objective Analysis, in an interview.
Intel Nips at Smartphone Market (TheStreet.com, 6/8/11) “Medfield is a small step closer,” Tom Starnes, an analyst at semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis, told TheStreet. “[But] it’s not like the grappling hook is over the wall and you know that you’re in.”
IO Turbine Solves VMware I/O Bottlenecks (Network Computing, 5/27/11) SSDs bring something to the party that's not well aligned to existing system architectures, but Accelio is designed to help work around this problem, says Jim Handy, semiconductor market research, Objective Analysis.
Freescale Semiconductor Launches IPO (Information Week, 5/26/11) “It's a relief of debt burden for them, but it’s not the magic bullet for them either,” said Tom Starnes, an analyst for Objective Analysis.
Kingmax Claims First 64-GB MicroSD Card (Information Week, 5/26/11) However, Kingmax's chips would barely fit into a microSD card since a microSD measures 15 by 10 millimeters at its narrowest point, Jim Handy, an analyst for Objective Analysis, said in an InformationWeek interview.
Enterprise SSD testing spec released (Computerworld, 5/23/11) Jim Handy, an analyst at market research firm Objective Analysis who was in the specification's technical working group, said, “The SNIA test specification is not an end-all, but it is certainly a big step ahead of the specifications that are commonly used by SSD makers.”
Chip Start-Up Joins With Russia In Memory Deal (Wall Street Journal, 5/17/11) The popularity of MRAMs will depend on how quickly manufacturers can drive down the price relative to other products, noted Jim Handy, an analyst with the market-research firm Objective Analysis.
SanDisk buys SSD firm (EE Times, 5/16/11) “Until today SanDisk was doing nothing to participate in this market,” added Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Microcontroller supply chain is out of control (EE Times, 5/5/11) “I have heard of (MCU) shortages, indeed some from Renesas,” said Tom Starnes, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
A Japanese Plant Struggles to Produce a Critical Auto Part (New York Times, 4/27/11) “These microcontrollers are different in small but important ways,” said Tom Starnes, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a technology research firm.
SanDisk-Toshiba reclaim NAND lead (EETimes, 4/21/11?) “Note that the (SanDisk-Toshiba duo) are not yet sampling the 19-nm part,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Seagate-Samsung Analysis: The Book Drops to Three Letters (Bright Side of News, 4/20/11) In 2009 Objective Analysis compiled a brief: Why the DRAM Market Must Consolidate.
Toshiba claims flash record with 19nm process (eWeek LinuxDevices, 4/20/11) EETimes also quotes Objective-Analysis analyst Jim Handy as saying the 19nm technology is “impressive.”
Intel, Micron Shrink NAND Flash (InformationWeek, 4/14/11) “There is no other semiconductor manufacturer using a 20-nm process,” Jim Handy, analyst for Objective Analysis, said in an interview.
Your MCU is Just Starting to be Connected (Tech-Zone Magazine, Invited Article, April 2011) Microcontroller vendors have been taking care of your connectivity and communications needs.
Pro Audio Reacts to Japan Disaster (Pro Sound News, 4/11/11) Researcher Tom Starns of Objective Analysis explained, “Of the $300B of semiconductor chips sold last year, nearly $50B were sold to or within Japan...”
10 Hot SSD Implementations (Enterprise Storage Forum, 4/22/11) But Jim Handy, an SSD analyst for Objective Analysis said that is never going to happen. SSD prices may be dropping rapidly, but hard drive prices are falling just as fast.
Japan disasters may ripple in NZ channels (Reseller News, 4/11/11) The NAND market reacted strongly because Japan supplies as much as 40 percent of the world’s NAND flash chips, according to Jim Handy , at Objective Analysis.
Insider trading sting reverberates throughout the tech industry (EDN, 4/5/11 ?) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, which conducts market research on the semiconductor industry, has been a consultant for Gerson Lehrman Group since 2003.
NAND supply still unstable (EE Times, 4/4/11?) “I would think that, at the latest, it would slip into 1Q ‘12,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Experts see wide use of flash-hard disk hybrids by 2016 (ComputerWorld, 4/4/11) For that reason, most PCs will still have hard disk drives in the years ahead, said Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates, and Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
Japan's Disasters Leading to Higher Priced Electronics (TMC.net, 3/31/11) Contrary to what Dauvin is saying, semiconductor analyst Jim Handy doesn't think that the ripple effect will extend to the consumer.
A Tale of Two iThings (MacNewsWorld, 3/30/11) The processor could be produced at multiple sites so supply won't be impacted by one or more sites' going down, for example, Tom Starnes, an analyst at Objective Analysis, told MacNewsWorld.
Micron’s CEO unsure of quake’s net effect (Lao Yao Ba, 3/26/11) Tom Starnes, an analyst with Objective Analysis, said in a report circulated earlier this week that infrastructure problems and rolling blackouts could continue to affect semiconductor and end-equipment manufacturers even far from the earthquake area for some time to come.
Two Weeks After Japan Earthquake, IT Industry Faces Hurdles (IDG News, 3/25/11) “Products like microcontrollers and DSPs can't simply be swapped out for another chip, whether from the same vendor or another,” said Tom Starnes, an embedded processor analyst at Objective Analysis in Austin, Texas.
Effect of Japan Quake on Semiconductor Industry Still Unclear (eWeek, 3/24/11) … the two variables undeniably in need of stability are people and industry, said Tom Starnes, author of the Objective Analysis report.
On Semi says two fabs still down (EE Times, 3/24/11) “Semiconductor manufacturing requires consistent, high-quality electricity, and disruptions in water and power look may continue to affect semiconductor and end-equipment manufacturers even far from the earthquake area for some time to come,” said Tom Starnes, an analyst with consulting firm Objective Analysis
Magid: U.S. needs to rein in energy use and re-think nuclear power (San Jose Mercury News, 3/24/11?) Although it’s unlikely to result in bare shelves at the retail level, there is concern about shortages of flash memory and other electronic components manufactured in Japan, according to Jim Handy, a Los Gatos-based analyst with Objective Analysis.
Samsung offers a peek into mobile trends of the future (VentureBeat, 3/23/11) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, noted that Samsung’s progress on chip manufacturing is not unique.
Japan: Power cuts impact semiconductor manufacturers (Japan: Stromausfälle setzen Halbleiterherstellern zu) (Produktion, 3/22/11) Even if only a small proportion of Japan’s electricity demand was supplied by the decommissioned nuclear power plants - about 2%, according to the American analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, the state of the network and the associated losses has greater meaning.
Japan Earthquake Rattles Chip Production: Report (eWeek, 3/21/11) Market research firm Objective Analysis claimed March 11 that more than 40 percent of the world’s NAND flash memory chips and 15 percent of global DRAM supplies hail from Japan.
Magid: U.S. needs to rein in energy use and re-think nuclear power (San Jose Mercury News, 3/21/11) …there is concern about shortages of flash memory and other electronic components manufactured in Japan, according to Jim Handy, a Los Gatos-based analyst with Objective Analysis.
Analysts: Half of PCs to incorporate flash memory plus HDDs by 2016 (FierceCIO, 3/20/11) ... Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, in a report published by the Storage Networking Industry Association, said that pairing flash memory with HDDs will result in better overall performance…
Japan disasters could result in gadget shortages (San Jose Mercury News, 3/19/11?) “It’s probably going to be another week before we have a clear picture of where everything is and where everything is headed,” said Jim Handy, principal analyst and director at Objective Analysis.
Experts See Wide Use of Flash-hard Disk Hybrids by 2016 (PC World, 3/18/11) Although the quieter, faster, more shock-absorbent SSDs are replacing HDDs in new computers, their relatively high cost will keep HDDs in most PCs over the years ahead, said Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates, and Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Japan Earthquake Affecting Flash Storage Production, Especially for iPad 2s (Yottabytes: Storage and Disaster Recovery (Blog), 3/18/11) While Japan is no stranger to earthquakes, the power of this one dwarfed previous quakes, said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis in a report on March 11.
Intel, Qualcomm Say Japan Disaster Won't Hurt Chip Production (eWeek 3/17/11) Jim Handy, an analyst with market research firm Objective Analysis, said in a March 11 report that given the size of the computer component industry in Japan—more than 40 percent of the NAND flash memory chips and about 15 percent of the global DRAM supplies are made in the country, he said—any blip in the manufacturing schedule could have a ripple effect throughout the tech industry.
Now, a Weak Link in the Global Supply Chain (BusinessWeek 3/16/11?) If the crisis leads to extended shutdowns, “then we just have an almost apocalyptic shortage,” says Jim Handy, an analyst with research firm Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif.
Japan's effect on recovery a worry (Boston Globe, 3/15/11?) Jim Handy, the principal analyst at Objective Analysis, a research firm in California’s Silicon Valley, said several semiconductor plants in southern Japan, hundreds of miles from the epicenter of the earthquake, have closed temporarily to make safety checks and adjustments to sensitive equipment.
Magid on Tech: How the Japanese tsunami is affecting tech supply (San Jose Mercury News, 3/15/11) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said that he is concerned about components shortages, including flash memory, which is essential for smart phones, tablets and digital cameras.
How the Quake Affects the Chip Supply Chain (Seeking Alpha, 3/15/11?) “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake,” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
Japanese crisis takes toll on Electronics cos (Economic Times, 3/15/11) The daily spot market for those chips rose 10 to 27 per cent, said Jim Handy , founder of Objective Analysis, a semiconductor manufacturing research firm in Silicon Valley, who has been tracking these prices.
Will Japan's Disaster Hurt The Global Economy? (NPR, 3/15/11) “I’m talking about things like cell phones that have fancier graphics on them,” says Jim Handy, who follows the semiconductor industry for the market research firm Objective Analysis.
Tech, business fallout from Japan disaster (Silicon Valley.com, 3/15/11) A Wall Street Journal article quotes Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis: “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake.
Flash, DRAM prices spike on worries over supplies from Japan (IDG News Service, 3/15/11) The NAND market has reacted so strongly because Japan supplies as much as 40 percent of the world's NAND flash chips, according to Jim Handy , at Objective Analysis.
Japan Disaster Another Worry For Global Economy (Associated Press, 3/15/11) Prices for the chips jumped 10 percent from before the earthquake to Monday and another 3 percent Tuesday, according to Jim Handy, a director at Objective Analysis and an expert on the electronics and semiconductor industries.
Japan Moves 8 Feet Over And 633 Points Down (Business Insider, 3/14/11) the earthquake could seriously affect worldwide semiconductor supplies, according to analysts such as Jim Handy of research firm Objective Analysis.
Quake Sparks Tech Supply Shortage Concerns (Wall Street Journal, 3/14/11) “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake,” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
In Silicon Valley, no immediate threat to supply chains from Japan disaster (SiliconValley.com, 3/14/11) “It's really too early to tell what is going to change and what is not,” said Jim Handy, the principal analyst at Objective Analysis.
Ripple effect of Japan disasters on consumer electronics (podcast) (CNET, 3/14/11) While most Japanese wafer fabrication plants (“fabs”) are located in the southern part of the country, hundreds of miles from the epicenter, at least one manufacturer is still shut down after last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, according to Jim Handy, an analyst with semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis.
In Silicon Valley, no immediate threat to supply chains from Japan disaster (San Jose Mercury News, 3/14/11) “It's really too early to tell what is going to change and what is not,” said Jim Handy, the principal analyst at Objective Analysis.
Local Analyst Describes Impact of Japan Quake on Silicon Valley (Los Gatos Observer, 3/14/11) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis in Los Gatos is warning that the earthquake in Japan will undoubtedly affect Silicon Valley.
Japan Disaster Could Lead to Considerable Supply Chain Issues (Techzone 360, 3/14/11) “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake,” Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, told the Wall Street Journal.
DATE 2011 in context (EDN, 3/14/11) In an email report received just hours after the earthquake hit, Jim Handy at Objective Analysis said, “Over 40% of the world's NAND flash and roughly 15% of the world's DRAM are manufactured in Japan.”
Chip Prices Rise As Japan Quake Sparks Supply Shortage Concerns (Wall Street Journal, 3/14/11) “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake,” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
Freescale, Texas Instruments feel affects of Japan disaster (Austin American-Statesman, 3/14/11?) Industry analyst Jim Handy with Objective Analysis said details on the exact impact from the quake remain sketchy from many companies.
Japan Reactor Problems Seen Affecting Chip Industry (PC Magazine, 3/14/11) “Japan is a significant source of chips to support consumer electronics devices,” Objective Analysis, a chip research house, wrote Friday.
Japan Earthquake Could Shake Up Semiconductor Industry (eWeek, 3/14/11) According to Jim Handy, an analyst with semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis, more than 40 percent of the NAND flash memory chips and about 15 percent of the global DRAM supplies are made in Japan…
Earthquake in Japan jolts global supply chain (NPR Marketplace, 3/14/11 (Podcast Transcription)) Jim Hardy follows the semi-conductor market for the firm Objective Analysis. He estimates about a dozen semi-conductor plants have been knocked out of production, at least temporarily.
Japan Earthquake Halts CE Production (Home Media Magazine, 3/14/11) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif., said the quake/tsunami and ongoing concerns regarding radiation leaks near affected nuclear power plants could easily halt CE production at least two weeks, resulting in higher retail prices.
How Badly Will the Japan Quake Hurt the Global Economy? (New Republic, 3/14/11) Supplies from Japan, he says, could be disrupted for months. And Jim Handy, an executive at the semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis, has said he expects “phenomenal” price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of the quake.
Disruptions of Power and Water Threaten Japan's Economy (New York Times, 3/13/11) “There will be a lot of nervousness,” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a semiconductor research firm.
Memory-Chip Prices Surge On Asia Spot Market Following Japan Earthquake (The Wall Street Journal, 3/13/11) According to market research firm Objective Analysis, more than 40% of the world's NAND flash and roughly 15% of the world's DRAM chips are manufactured in Japan.
The Economic Impact of Japan's Monster Quake (Seeking Alpha, 3/13/11) Because Japan produces more than 40% of the world's NAND flash memory chips -- and 15% of its DRAM -- the earthquake could seriously affect worldwide semiconductor supplies, according to analysts such as Jim Handy of research firm Objective Analysis.
Northern quake spared industrial heartland (Economic Times, 3/12/11) Japan, for example, produces 40% of lightweight memory chips most commonly used for storage in digital music players, smart phones and tablet computers, estimated Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a research firm.
Initial assessments of the Japanese earthquake show little impact on the PV supply chain (PV Tech, 3/12/11) Market research firm Objective Analysis provided location map for the semiconductor plants in Japan in relation to where the earthquake epicentre was and greatest impact from the tsunami that followed.
Japan quake may hit flash memory chip supply (CNET, 3/12/11) Over 40 percent of the world's NAND flash and roughly 15 percent of the world's DRAM are manufactured in Japan, according to a report released today by Objective Analysis, a firm that does semiconductor-related market research.
Japan earthquake's impact on semiconductor community (Solid State Technology, 3/11/11) Jim Handy, a director of Objective Analysis semiconductor market research, shares his insights into Japan's semiconductor fabs and the quake's impact range.
Japan quake could hit semiconductor production, prices (ComputerWorld, 3/11/11) According to Jim Handy, an analyst with semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis, it would not take a large drop in wafer production to cause prices to increase dramatically.
Japanese Quake’s Impact on Wafer Fabs (IEEE Spectrum, 3/11/11) The total damage caused by today's 9.0-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan is unclear, but analyst Jim Handy at Objective Analysis questions the impact on the country's semiconductor wafer fabrication plants.
Japan Earthquake Predicted To Cause Semiconductor Shortages (Information Week, 3/11/11) “There’s fabs (fabrication plants) all over Japan,” Handy said in an interview. “Some are close to the epicenter of the earthquake and there's been building damage all the way from the east coast to Tokyo.” …according to market researcher Objective Analysis.
Japan Quake Prompts Memory Chip Price Hike (Jazzou News, 3/11/11) Meanwhile Jim Handy, an analyst from Objective Analysis is predicting large repercussions globally from the earthquake in the technology industry: “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-tern shortages as a result of this earthquake.
Internet, Japan Tech Firms Withstand Quake (Investor’s Business Daily, 3/11/11) About 40% of the world's NAND flash memory and 15% of DRAMs — the most popular flash and computer memory chips — are made in Japan, Jim Handy, director at research firm Objective Analysis, wrote in a research note Friday.
How will Japan earthquake affect Apple’s iPad supply chain? (ZDnet, 3/11/11) According to analyst Jim Handy at Objective Anaysis Semiconductor Market Research, a number of Fujitsu and Toshiba manufacturing sites are located near the earthquake epicenter.
Los Gatos Analyst Predicts Chip Shortage in Wake of Japan Earthquake (Los Gatos Patch, 3/11/11) Making the rounds is a map produced by Los Gatos resident Jim Handy that shows semiconductor plants in Japan that have stopped operations or could shut down after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake.
Japan's Quake, Tsunami Could Disrupt Semiconductor Supplies, Raise Prices (Computer Reseller News, 3/11/11) “Objective Analysis anticipates phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake,” the analyst firm wrote.
Japan Earthquake Could Deal Blow to Semiconductor Industry (eWeek, 3/11/11) Japan also is a key source of chips that support such booming consumer electronics devices as smartphones, tablets and PCs, Jim Handy, an analyst with semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis, said in a March 11 report.
Analysts Predict Major Impact From Japan Quake (Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design, 3/11/11) Jim Handy, principal analyst at semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis (Los Gatos, Calif.), … noted that Japan also is a significant source of consumer electronics devices.
Earthquake Impacts Semiconductor Industry (Electronic Design, 3/11/11) I spoke with Jim Handy of Objective Analysis to find out how the earthquake will impact the semiconductor industry.
Analyst: Micron to retake NAND lead (EE Times, 2/22/11) At a recent event, Micron showed the 64-Gbit, “20-nm” part, which is expected to ship this year, said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Analyst: NAND market to ‘collapse’ (EE Times, 2/22/11) “We’ve been calling for a collapse (in the NAND market) in the second half of this year,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Tough years seen ahead for NOR flash (EE Times, 2/22/11) On Tuesday (Feb. 22), Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, said his firm expects NAND ASPs to collapse in the fourth quarter of this year.
The brand-new Spansion flashing memory products offer for embedded application and break through the characteristic (VOIP-Video, 2/17/11) The president Jim Handy of Objective Analytics Company shows: “Spansion carries out company’s strategy all the time, keeps in the particular embedded market leading position, and offer the solution out of the common on the basis of the appropriate MirrorBit technology of Spansion Company.
Spansion CEO pushes NOR for embedded (EE Times, 2/17/11) “Spansion is back and is in fine form to compete aggressively in this market,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Why SandForce Is Fast Moving Up the SSD Value Chain (eWeek, 2/16/11) Jim Handy, the respected SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, has bought into SandForce's story.
Spansion aims for a comeback with innovative flash memory (VentureBeat, 2/16/11) Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analytics, says the new chip family shows that the company’s technology has room to grow and that Spansion is executing well.
SandForce: More than one million SSD processors in first year of production (Artem,2/16/11) Jim Handy, SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, said: SandForce-based SSDs have received accolades from leading reviewers…
New Spansion GL Flash Memory Family Delivers Breakthrough Performance for Embedded Applications (Website Gear, 2/16/11) “Spansion continues to execute well against its strategy to lead in its target embedded markets and deliver differentiated solutions based on its proprietary MirrorBit technology,” said Jim Handy, president, Objective Analytics.
Why SandForce Is Fast Moving Up the SSD Value Chain (eWeek, 2/15/11) Jim Handy, the respected SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, has bought into SandForce's story…
Memory Industry Shakeup: Q&A with Jim Handy (Bnet, 2/4/11) For some clarity I spoke with memory expert Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Study: Market for hybrid hard drives doubled every year until 2016 (Battery Talk, 1/20/11) Jim Handy, writes: “We expect to double the hybrid hard drive market every year...
Analysts look at Storage Drivers – Storage Visions 2011 (Media & Entertainment Technologies, 1/20/11) Handy stated memory has two constants; prices always go down and technology changes.
2011 Semiconductor Memory Market Forecast with Jim Handy of Objective Analysis (WeSRCH, 1/19/11) A video with Jim Handy of Objective Analysis. We look into the boom of 2010 and the dynamics behind it as well as his projections for 2011.
Hitachi to ship SSDs with high-end arrays (ComputerWorld, 1/17/11) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis, said the cost of SSDs is only five to ten times higher than enterprise-class hard disk drives.
Microsoft's Windows on ARM Better for Partners Than Us (PC Magazine, 1/5/11) “People are used to how cell phones operate,” said Tom Starnes, an embedded processor analyst with Objective Analysis.
2011 heralds correction, analysts agree (EDN, 1/3/11) Jim Handy, director at Objective Analysis, pointed out that a lot of people are hanging their hats on tablets…
Toshiba, others invest $20M in flash memory array maker Violin ... (Assembly Line, 1/2/11) According to Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif., Toshiba's backing of Violin is key to the company’s continued growth since it will become a preferred customer.
A New Memory Company (Affiliates in Training, 12/29/10) Numonyx is in a good position to lead the industry in phase-change memory, says Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis
NVELO Demonstrates Flash Cache Storage Solution at Storage Visions 2011 (Benzinga, 12/28/10) Jim Handy, SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, notes, “By making SSD performance affordable, caching solutions like Dataplex have the ability to drastically change the landscape for SSD in client computing.”
Cheaper MLC NAND flash drives poised to drive enterprise SSD adoption (Search Storage, 12/23/10) The SLC chips cost approximately five times more per GB than MLC chips, said Jim Handy, founder and SSD analyst at Los Gatos, Calif-based Objective Analysis.
Micron ramps NAND fab without Intel (EE Times 12/22/10) “Intel has a different opinion about how to time their capital spending than Micron does, and their contract is written to accommodate that,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Analysis: As SSD of 100GB realizes price of 50 dollars is checked (Electronics Tech 12/22/10) People clasp the wrong expectation to SSD, the analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis Company points out.
Toshiba NAND Fab Suffers Power Outage Last Week (Storage Newsletter, 12/15/10) Objective Analysis anticipates a modest and temporary price increase…
DRAM And NAND Prices Will Collapse Later In 2011 (Electronic Design, Invited Article, 12/14/10) It’s bad enough when only one company adds production capacity, but in the world of semiconductors, all manufacturers add capacity simultaneously, causing a very sudden and dramatic shift from an undercapacity to a significant overcapacity.
Power Glitch Hits Toshiba's Flash Memory Production Line (PC World, 12/10/10) The impact on chip prices won't be big, said semiconductor market research company Objective Analysis.
SEMICON Report: Toshiba Plant Outage Supports Nand Flash Prices (Wall Street Journal, 12/10/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said he expects NAND flash prices will trend upwards for the next month or two.
Toshiba NAND shipments to slow due to power outage (Electronics Advocate, 12/10/10) Shipments of Toshiba’s NAND flash memory could be 20 percent lower through February due to a brief power outage on Wednesday at the company's manufacturing fab in Yokkaichi, Japan, reported Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Ixys revives Zilog amid a power trip (EE Times, 12/4/10) “This might be the approach being taken at Ixys, but they are not the only ones that are doing it,” agreed analyst Tom Starnes, who follows the microcontroller market for Objective Analysis.
Payment Applications Make E-Commerce Mobile (IEEE Computer, December 2010) Mobile-payment services must work on many types of phones and via the networks and billing services of many cellular-service providers, which adds complexity to the transaction process, said Tom Starnes, principal of market research firm Objective Analysis.
Anobiy Selectionnée par Intel Capital (Israel Valley, 11/28/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said it makes sense that Anobit's proprietary technology would be able to offer dramatically lower prices...
Hitachi GST Enters Enterprise SSD Market (GLG News, 11/18/10) SSD analyst Jim Handy, Objective Analysis, says the enterprise SSD market is the faster growing of the two SSD markets -- enterprise and client -- with expected average annual unit shipment growth of almost 90 percent.
Violin adds NFS cache with Gear6 software - Storage Soup (Storage Soup, 11/16/10) “If Flash is good, then more Flash is better,” said Objective Analysis analyst Jim Handy, who sees Cache as a way to avoid buying extra servers to run databases.
Analysis: Solid-state drives may be set for wider PC use (Reuters, 11/12/10) “If the big issue is changing the consumer mind-set, then Steve Jobs has the clout to have initiated that process,” said Jim Handy, a semiconductor expert at market research firm Objective Analysis.
Does the new MacBok Air predict the ending of the traditional disk (PRLog, 11/5/10) The objective-analystis Jim Handy pointed out that the price of NAND flash memory will decrease as it's oversupplied.
Opinion: MacBook Air could foretell death of laptop hard drives (MacWorld, 10/26/10) Typically, NAND flash prices undergo a dramatic collapse at the onset of an oversupply, according to Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
Are Hybrid Drives the Next Big Thing? (HotHardware 10/26/10) According to a new report by market research firm Objective Analysis, hybrid drives are primed to dominate the market.
Hybrid (flash + HDD) drives make a comeback (Infostor, 10/26/10) The biggest problem was that the early models didn't have onboard data management for the flash component, according to Jim Handy, director of the Objective Analysis research and consulting firm
Apple MacBook Air or indicating traditional hard disk era ends (Hu-Tui.com, 10/26/10) Objective-Analysis analyst Jim's Chinese of market survey is guided (Jim Handy) Point out NAND the intersection of flashing memory and price support, while asking will glide notably while being large, supply exceeds demand to accompany by manufacturers, raise the output, increase capital investment, appear always.
Hybrid hard-disk market set to take off (Cnet News, 10/25/10) The hybrid hard-disk drive market is expected to reach 600 million units in 2016, according to market researcher Objective Analysis.
Renesas readies mixed-signal MCUs (EE Times, 10/14/10) According to Tom Starnes, an analyst at market research firm Objective Analysis, companies like Microchip Technology Inc. and Freescale Semiconductor Inc. offer microcontrollers that incorporate some analog circuits.
SandForce rolls SSD processor line (EE Times, 10/7/10) “Samsung uses a proprietary controller (for their SSDs). So do SanDisk, Toshiba, Intel, and Micron,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Multicore processors: Now a movement (EE Times, Invited Article, 9/27/10) …to stay on the performance treadmill that Moore’s Law so aptly described, multicore is the only viable option.
STEC adds DRAM SSD for appliances; Violin launches MLC device for capacity (Search Storage, 9/20/10) Analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said the fast write-commit feature makes ZeusRAM a good fit for online transaction processing (OLT) applications.
Flash in the Can? More Powerful Next-Gen Memory Chips Wait in the Wings (Scientific American, 9/14/10) “HP’s memristor is made using a titanium oxide, which is not common to put on semiconductors and appears to be difficult to manage today,” says Jim Handy, an analyst with the semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis.
Pliant Technology introduces multi-level cell (MLC) solid-state drives (Search Storage, 9/8/10) Jim Handy, SSD analyst at semiconductor industry analyst firm Objective Analysis, said he thinks it's just a matter of time until MLC flash catches on in the enterprise.
Will Elpida shake up NAND market? (EE Times, 9/2/10) …future computers will include a NAND memory layer that will cause DRAM growth to slow down in all computing systems, from PCs to mainframes,'' said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
SSDs: Still not a ‘solid state’ business (EE Times 8/20/10) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, said SSDs are growing at about the rate he expected, but that this rate is slower than many had hoped.
NAND flash memory pricing to plummet to $1 per GB (Computerworld, 8/19/10) Objective Analysis research analyst Jim Handy disagreed with iSuppli's forecast, saying NAND flash memory is still suffering from a shortage and that prices are going to stay pretty flat till the second half of next year.
Down with Digital? New Circuit Design Promises to Take the Guesswork out of Probability Processing (Scientific American, 8/17/10) “We've been heading down a road of using digital logic more and more. If things become complicated, we just add transistors,” says Jim Handy, an analyst with the semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif.
SSDs may give you more bang for your DRAM (Network World, 8/17/10) There are key advantages to this type of implementation, especially cost savings. DRAM costs about 12 times as much per gigabyte as flash, and that gap is growing, according to analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Intel-Hitachi SSDs Fall Behind Schedule (PC World, 8/16/10) The enterprise flash business as a whole, which has faced some stumbling blocks over the years, is still growing fast, according to analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Chip startup Smooth-Stone raises $48M in backing (Austin American-Statesman, 8/15/10) ARM-based designs “are the natural thing to put in there,” said analyst Tom Starnes with Objective Analysis, “because the ARM architecture from day one has been focused on power consumption.”
Good news in the chip industry (KLIV Radio, 8/2/10) Jim Handy with Objective Analysis says the first half of 2010 saw a 50-percent growth from the first half of last year.
Memcon: ASML, vendors to blame for shortages (EE Times 7/29/10) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, sees the dreaded oversupply situation in the memory market “in mid-2011 or 2012” timeframe.
Dell Revamps Hardware Testing in Wake of Malware Issue (PC World, 7/22/10) Motherboards also could have solid-state drive units for data storage, said Jim Handy, director at Objective Analysis, a semiconductor research company.
Samsung, Toshiba Seek Big Increase in NAND Flash Speeds (PC World, 7/22/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said speedier interfaces for NAND chips are important because of their growing use for data processing…
Samsung and Toshiba to Develop a New Type of NAND Flash (Top Tech Reviews, 7/24/10) An analyst at the Objective Analysis – Jim Handy said that speedy interfaces for NAND chips are important because of their growing use for memory and data processing units.
SanDisk CEO Harari to retire (EE Times 7/22/10) “He's leaving at a high point,” added Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Samsung, Toshiba Seek Big Increase in NAND Flash Speeds (PC World, 7/22/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said speedier interfaces for NAND chips are important because of their growing use for data processing, and not just music, photos, videos and USB drives.
Dell Revamps Hardware Testing in Wake of Malware Issue (PC World, 7/22/10) … instructions to start a system originate from a NOR flash chip, which would also imply that the malware is “pretty small,” said Jim Handy, director at Objective Analysis said.
Israeli Start-Up Claims Huge Boost to SSD Reliability (PC World, 7/12/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said it makes sense that Anobit's proprietary technology would be able to offer dramatically lower prices…
Kingston Suggests New SSDs for Old Desktops to Speed Up Performance (Desktop Review, 7/8/10) The cost per gigabyte on storage is about 20 times lower for HDDs, and that relationship will remain the same for the next 20 years, said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis
Will Spansion succeed or fail again? (EE Times, 6/23/10) “I am bullish on Spansion. They have dramatically reset their goals,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Anobit Claims Enterprise SSD Performance from MLC (Enterprise Storage Forum, 6/15/10) SSD analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told Enterprise Storage Forum that “it's a little hard to tell how much of a breakthrough this is…”
Virident ships SLC SSDs for PCIe (InfoStor, 6/15/10) Virident will compete most directly with Fusion-io, according to Jim Handy, an SSD analyst and director of Objective Analysis, a semiconductor market research firm.
Israeli start-up claims huge boost to SSD reliability (Computerworld, 6/15/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said it makes sense that Anobit's proprietary technology would be able to offer dramatically lower prices…
Samsung Factory Shows Surprising Logic (Wall Street Journal, 6/9/10) Jim Handy, who tracks the industry for the research firm Objective Analysis, says Samsung has realized that it can’t get to that position on memory alone. Tom Starnes, an Austin-based consultant who also collaborates with Handy at Objective Analysis, said Samsung should have no problem finding people to hire in view of layoffs at some other semiconductor companies in the city.
Grandis: STT-RAM to replace DRAM, flash (EE Times, 6/9/10) it's in fact tremendously difficult, a challenge that has prevented any of these technologies from reaching critical mass,’’ said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Seagate's Hybrid Drive Shoots for Quick-Draw Data Access (TechNewsWorld, 5/25/10) “SSDs’ extremely low acceptance can be traced back to their significant cost premium -- the cost/benefit ratio simply doesn't appeal to most consumers,” Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, told TechNewsWorld.
Violin 3000 series pushes SSD capacity pricing toward Fibre Channel SAN (SearchStorage.com, 5/25/10) “They started off with technology that was pretty pricey…" said Jim Handy, director at Los Gatos, CA-based market research firm Objective Analysis
V3 - It's All About the Analysts (Tekrati, 5/24/10) …some of the most famous and influential analysts in the world including: Rob Enderle who is the most quoted industry analyst in the world; Charles King who writes much of and facilitates the widely distributed and read Pund-IT, Roger Kay ranks as one of the most oft-quoted PC experts; semiconductor guru Jim Handy; and Altimeter Group which houses an exclusive club of top analysts such as Charlene Li, R “Ray” Wang, Jeremiah Owyang and Michael Gartenberg.
SSDs can improve battery life and provide rugged mass storage (Rapid, 5/24/10) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, says the devices are likely to prove very popular with those in industry as they can withstand heavy falls and other impacts.
Good Times: Micron Closes $1.2 Billion Deal (Boise Weekly, 5/11/10) Jim Handy, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based semiconductor industry analyst for the firm Objective Analysis, estimated that Numonyx could add up to $1.5 billion to Micron's revenue stream.
SSDs ‘a popular form of mass storage’ (Zyco, 5/25/10) Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analysis, said the technology has a number of benefits for construction and manufacturing workers.
Solid State Drives for Energy Savings (SNIA Europe Newsletter, Invited Article, 5/10/10) Once the data center manager incorporates SSD technology to complement existing storage tiering, two important side benefits of SSD storage become apparent:
PCIe and standard interface SSDs will live in perfect harmony (Fudzilla, 5/5/10) An analyst for Objective Analysis claims that PCIe and standard interface SSDs technology will work together for a long time. Many others claim that SSDs will replace PCIe as soon as the price drops but Jim Handy told Digitimes there is a lot of life in the old hard-drives yet.
For 2010, marketplace optimism abounds (Solid State Technology, 1/19/10) Jim Handy: “I am sure that the many hurting vendors and unemployed semiconductor professionals will join Objective Analysis in saying: ‘It’s about time!’”
Renesas tips MCU roadmap, but are rivals worried? (EE Times, 5/7/10) “I asked a couple of MCU competitors about the renewed Renesas and they were unconcerned,” said Tom Starnes, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Will the Feds Sour Apple's Juice? (Mac News World, 5/5/10) “Sometimes you deal with parts of the world where intellectual property rights are not held in as high esteem as here,” Tom Starnes, an industry analyst at Objective Analysis, told MacNewsWorld.
Analysts: Don't Expect Intel Inside Smartphones (PC Magazine, 5/5/10) … according to Tom Starnes, an analyst at Objective Analysis: “They just have not demonstrated a longevity in this space, and this is a critical part of this type of business.”
Objective Analysis: PCIe and standard interface SSDs should coexist for a very long time (DigiTimes, 5/5/10) Earlier this year, Computerworld Russia had a chance to ask Mr. Handy some questions about solid state drive (SSD) technology.
Memory Startup Gets Vote of Confidence from IBM (Wall Street Journal, 5/2/10) Others have been doing the same thing, including STEC and Fusion-io, but they sell complete SSDs that include internally designed controller chips, notes Jim Handy, an analyst at the market research firm Objective Analysis.
Enterprise SSDs to soar through 2015 (Computerworld, 4/30/10) According to Objective Analysis' 104-page report, there are 22 key enterprise applications for SSDs with varying uses.
Le recours aux SSD va grimper dans les entreprises d'ici 2015 (Le Monde Informatique, 4/30/10) Jim Handy, auteur de l'étude d'Objective Analysis, note de son côté que le recours aux SSD a déjà commencé à se développer dans les entreprises.
Numonyx announces phase-change memory for consumer devices (Computerworld, 4/21/10) “Serial interface is really the growing market for NOR,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis
Everspin rocks SRAM boat with 16-Mbit MRAM (EE Times, 4/19/10) “Everspin is taking a different approach than most alternative memory companies,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis
Solid State Drives for Energy Savings (SNIA Europe: Storage Networking Times, Invited Article, 4/15/10) Once the data center manager incorporates SSD technology to complement existing storage tiering, two important side benefits of SSD storage become apparent...
You Went to Jail ... but Howzabout Coming Back to Work for Us? (The Recorder, 4/13/10) “…there's a sense that these people have gone through the strangeness of American society…” said Jim Handy, a semiconductor analyst with Objective Analysis in Los Gatos
What's next for troubled Spansion? (EETimes, 4/5/10?) “When they come out of bankruptcy their creditors will all become shareholders of a private firm. This should happen soon,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Toshiba, others invest $20M in flash memory array maker Violin (Computerworld, 4/2/10?) According to Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif., Toshiba's backing of Violin is key to the company's continued growth...
Vendors to revive stalled NAND projects (EE Times, 3/29/10?) “Prudent or not, it's a typical move during this kind of a time,” said Jim Handy, a NAND and solid-state drive analyst at research firm Objective Analysis.
Toshiba to go ahead with NAND flash fab (CIOL, 3/26/10) According to Jim Handy, a NAND and SSD analyst at the research firm Objective Analysis, prolonged periods of stable pricing always prompt vendors to add capacity…
Toshiba to add NAND fab in Japan (EE Times, 3/23/10) According to Jim Handy, a NAND and SSD analyst at research firm Objective Analysis, a NAND supply shortage that began last March is expected to keep pricing firm into 2011.
Capacitor-less below 1V operating ZRAM chips made using bulk silicon can replace DRAM (EE Herald, 3/22/10) “The DRAM market, the largest of the memory markets, is facing phenomenal challenges in migrating to future process nodes,” said Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis.
Phase Change Memory will Change Memory System Design (RTC Magazine, Invited Article, 3/22/10) This technology fits between today’s volatile and nonvolatile memory technologies
Innovative Silicon announces Z-RAM breakthroughs (The Inquirer, 3/17/10) This new technology could be just the shot in the arm that the memory market needs, according to Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Intel Bolsters Budget SSD Trend With 40 GB Drive (E-Commerce Times, 3/16/10) Consumers looking for a new computer have been trained to look for certain things when they are shopping, said Jim Handy, SSD analyst with Objective Analysis
The Future of Internal Hard Drives (Suite 101, 3/10/10) “Depending on performance, SSDs can range in cost from $3 to $20 per gigabyte, says Jim Handy, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based SSD analyst with Objective Analysis”
How to Use Flash-Based SSDs in Your Environment (TechTarget, 2/17/10) "They have to think of it like storage cache that's faster than hard disk storage but slower than DRAM," said Jim Handy, SSD analyst at Los Gatos, Calif.
How to use solid-state disk without crunching your controllers (Search Storage, 2/17/10) "They have to think of it like storage cache that's faster than hard disk storage but slower than DRAM," said Jim Handy, SSD analyst at market research firm Objective Analysis.
With SSDs, Multi-Level Cell Designs Might Be the Way to Go (ITBusinessEdge, 2/16/10) Objective Analysis' Jim Handy has a good run-down on the advantages of MLC this week on Infostor.
Micron to Acquire Numonyx (TweakTown, 2/10/10) Objective Analysis anticipates that this will be a good deal for both buyer and sellers.
SSD Maker Micron to Acquire Numonyx for $1.27B (eWeek, 2/10/10) "By acquiring Numonyx, Micron is buying the current leader in the NOR market, a position Numonyx is believed to have held for the past two quarters," flash industry analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis wrote in a news brief.
Micron challenges Samsung with $1.27 billion acquisition (Salt Lake Tribune, 2/10/10) Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis of Los Gatos, Calif., pointed out that Micron in the past has acquired companies at a low point in the market using depressed Micron stock.
Micron-Numonyx deal: What analysts are saying (EE Times, 2/10/10) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis: ''Micron re-enters NOR. Micron itself participated in NOR starting in the late 1990s, but abandoned this effort in 2006.
Solid-state storage fixes data center bottlenecks -- for a price (Computerworld, 2/8/10) SSDs can range in cost from $3 to $20 per gigabyte, says Jim Handy, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based SSD analyst with Objective Analysis
Samsung moving ahead of schedule on $500M Austin project (Austin American-Statesman, 2/7/10?) But analyst Jim Handy, with Objective Analysis in San Jose, Calif., says there is another reason Samsung is pushing hard on the project
Does MLC flash belong in enterprise SSDs? (InfoStor, Invited Article, February 2010) There's a good bit of debate about whether or not enterprise-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives can use multi-level cell (MLC) flash technology, as opposed to single-level cell (SLC) technology, which is currently the dominant technology for enterprise SSDs.
Flying solo (The Daily Deal, 2/5/10) Samsung was in a high-stakes licensing contract negotiation with SanDisk when it began its six-month pursuit, and it was simply cheaper for it to buy the company than pay the royalties, says Jim Handy, an analyst at semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis.
Intel tips NAND strategy, reveals a surprise (EE Times, 2/4/10) “Both also remarked that this was one further step that would help bring SSDs into the mainstream,'' said Handy of Objective Analysis.
Phase Change Memory: The Next Big Thing in Data Storage? (Enterprise Storage Forum, 2/3/10) PCM could be a strong alternative to flash, as it provides the same benefits as flash with faster speed, said Jim Handy, an SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, a semiconductor market research firm.
Flash capacity to double with 25 nm process (MyCE, 2/3/10) Objective Analysis estimates that the 25 nm flash chips will cost 50 cents per GB to manufacture, compared to $1.75 per GB for an industry standard 40 nm chip.
Analyst take: Inside Intel/Micron's 25nm NAND device (ElectroIQ, 2/2/10) Jim Handy from Objective Analysis does the math on the new chip…
Intel and Micron Introduce 25nm NAND, Gain Competitive Edge, Says Objective Analysis (Tekrati, 2/2/10) With a die size of 167mm² the device can fit into a standard TSOP package, according to semiconductor industry analyst Jim Handy at Objective Analysis.
Intel, Micron intro 25-nm NAND (EDN, 2/1/10) “At a die size of 167-mm-sq a 300-mm fab should be able to manufacture just over 400 die per wafer,” Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, reported.
Intel and Micron get flash process lead (The Register, 2/1/10) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis reckons “a manufacturing cost of about $4.00 per chip, or $0.50/GB.”
New chip raises profile of Lehi memory chip manufacturer (Salt Lake Tribune, 2/1/10) Jim Handy, chief analyst at Objective Analysis of Los Gatos, Calif., said the biggest factor in the flash memory business is the cost of production of memory measured in gigabytes.
Micron and Intel to roll on 25 nano Flash chips (TechEye, 1/31/10) Objective Analysis in a note that said the chips cost of manufacturing will be around 50 cents a gigabyte, that compares to $1.75 a gigabyte for 45 nanometre memory.
Intel, Micron to Shrink NAND Flash to 25 nm (PC Magazine, 1/30/10) "Since the price of NAND flash has been hovering around $2.00/GB for the past year, and seems poised to continue at that price through 2010, the 25nm process will give the companies a significant margin boost over their current 34nm chip whose cost we estimate at $1.00/GB," Objective Analysis said.
Solid State Drives Get Faster with TRIM (Enterprise Storage Forum, 1/27/10) ... TRIM should be widely adopted in the very near future, said Jim Handy, an SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, a semiconductor market research firm.
How Soon Can The New Decade Start? (Electronic Design, Invited Article, 1/7/10) Right now it is particularly difficult to see the future. It’s 2010 and everybody is ready for a fresh start. Tom Starnes
Parques Solares de Navarra ofrece instalaciones a EEUU (Diario de Navarra, 1/3/10) Terry Peterson y Jim Handy, representantes de la entidad americana, visitaron el parque solar de Villafranca y mostraron su convencimiento de que la concentración es la tecnología de futuro en cuanto al sector fotovoltaico se refiere.
Rambus’ legal wranglings could lead to big payoff (San Jose Mercury News, 1/2/10) Without offering an opinion on Rambus' claims, Jim Handy, of the chip-market research firm Objective Analysis, said it's important for innovations to be fairly rewarded. Otherwise, he said, “that could pull the plug out of Silicon Valley.”
Seagate jumps into crowded flash drive market (EE Times, 12/8/09) "The company will be a force to contend with once it reaches its stride," said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis (Los Gatos, Calif.) in a written analysis.
Report: Apple accused of NAND price manipulation (C-Net, 12/1/09) The practice of not buying all of the product originally ordered, semiconductor analyst Jim Handy told CNET, is "not uncommon in the industry."
Solid State Drives Remove Trash (Enterprise IT Planet, 12/2/09) “SSDs suffer from a difficulty that doesn't exist in HDDs - the flash must be erased before new data can be written into it,” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a market research firm that predicts 148 percent unit growth for the enterprise SSD market.
Solid State Drives Take Out the Garbage (Enterprise Storage Forum, 12/1/09) “SSDs suffer from a difficulty that doesn't exist in HDDs …” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis…
Google Chrome OS will not support hard-disk drives (Computerworld, 11/19/09) Jim Handy, an analyst with research firm Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif., said if fast boot times were as important as Google is making them out to be, then Apple would own the PC market.
Micron Unveils New Enterprise Flash Technology (Enterprise Storage Forum, 10/20/09) SSD analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said the announcement “proves wrong all those people who think that high-endurance devices will never be supported by advancing lithographies.”
IBM adds flash to storage virtualization (Enterprise Storage Forum, 10/20/09) SSD analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said the announcement “proves wrong all those people who think that high-endurance devices will never be supported by advancing lithographies.”
Focus On: SSDs and cloud storage (InfoStor, 10/13/09) The next debate may be where to put SSDs. That's what Objective Analysis' Jim Handy addresses in "Where do SSDs fit: Servers or arrays?"
Where do SSDs fit: Servers or arrays? (InfoStor, Invited Article, 10/13/09) Something of a religious war has popped up in the enterprise solid-state disk (SSD) drive space—where do SSDs belong: In the storage array or in the server as direct-attached storage?
Light innovators win Nobel (Web Telecoms, 10/8/09) The common wisdom is that NAND can't scale below 20 nanometers, according to Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analysis.
SanDisk Says New Chips Will Lower Production Costs (Wall Street Journal, 10/13/09) The flash-memory segment should rise nearly 31% to $18.4 billion after a 13% decline in 2008, predicts Jim Handy, an analyst at the market research firm Objective Analysis.
The Need for Speed: Sorting Out SSD Strengths & Weaknesses (SNIA Europe: Storage Networking Times, Invited Article, 10/13/09) SSDs are bursting onto the scene in many forms with a variety of features.
Samsung Sees Major Benefits From Phase-change Memory (PCWorld, 10/9/09) It could take many years to make its mark in mobile devices, said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis
Google: DRAM error rates vastly higher than previously thought (Computerworld 10/8/09) Hard errors are most often caused by chip contamination at the manufacturing facility, but they often don't show up in testing and only surface after the memory chip warms after hours of use, according to Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
Bell Microproducts Introduces SSD Seminar Series (Reuters, 10/7/09) The seminar series will feature industry expert Jim Handy, a principal with analyst firm Objective Analysis.
When will emerging memory arrive? (EDN, 10/5/09) According to Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analysis: “There are a lot of people focusing a lot of effort on whatever the next technology will be.”
Analysts: Micron may turn corner (Idaho Business Review, 10/4/09) Jim Handy, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based semiconductor industry analyst with Objective Analysis, agreed that Micron’s recent performance was “a really strong signal”…
ARM Techcon – Is Cloud Computing Just a Dream and Intel vs. ARM (GarySmithEDA.com blog, October 2009) Tom Starnes had an interesting panel at ARM Techcon this year. The topic of the panel was Cloud Computing but at the end the conversation turned into a look at the competitive battle between Intel and ARM.
SSD Makers Wrestle with Performance Degradation (Enterprise Storage Forum, 9/30/09) SSDs suffer from a difficulty that doesn't exist in HDDs — the flash must be erased before new data can be written into it, said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a market research firm specializing in SSDs and semiconductors.
IBM Produces First Prototype of 32-nm Embedded SOI Chip (eWeek, 9/18/09) “This competes with SRAM on the chip, which accounts for about 50 percent of the die area of all high-performance processor chips,” Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK.
Feels like SDRAM, but nonvolatile (Embedded Computing Design, 9/17/09) I like the comment Jim Handy of Objective Analysis made to describe the problem of large-scale memory in applications where power can be lost: “DRAM is volatile, flash is slow, SRAM with batteries is unreliable, and alternative technologies are too costly to use in large densities.”
Pliant Delivers (InfoStor, 9/14/09) According to Jim Handy, director of the Objective Analysis research and consulting firm (which specializes in the SSD market), one differentiator for Pliant is that its EFDs are based on the SAS interface, which is relatively rare in the SSD market.
Done Deals, and Those Not Taken (Semiconductor International, 4/27/09) But as Tom Starnes, an analyst who follows the MCU market at Objective Analysis, points out, bigger is not necessarily better.
Synapse Registers 500th SNAPs User (Wireless Business & Technology, 9/17/09) “You no longer have to be a network expert to make use of wireless technology, and can develop an application in a matter of days,” said Tom Starnes, Processor Analyst, Objective Analysis.
NAND Flash and PCs (EDN, 9/17/09) Recently, analyst Jim Handy released a report on Intel’s Braidwood, which is Intel’s 3rd generation Flash cache for PC architectures.
Cypress PSoC 5 With ARM Cortex-M3 (IQ OnLine, 9/15/09) “The PSoC is the only architecture that extends the concept of programmability beyond instructions for the processor to configuring peripherals and customization of digital functions,” said Tom Starnes, principal analyst at Objective Analysis in Austin, Texas.
Solid State of the union: Some SSD inaugurations (The Register, 9/2/09) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis also thinks that Intel's NAND-on-motherboard Braidwood technology could have a server implementation coming.
Pliant Hopes to Give STEC Some Competition (Enterprise Storage Forum, 9/15/09) … analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis noted, “I don't think anyone thought STEC would have the field all to themselves quite this long.”
Intel Braidwood is low-cost option for faster PCs (
Big Data Storage Buying Guide (Enterprise Storage Forum, 3/21/13) “It's time for data center managers to seriously consider the approach they need to take — does it need to be all flash, or should they use caching and a smaller amount of flash storage, perhaps in the form of solid state drives (SSDs)? asked Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Freescale Semiconductor looks to ARM strategy (dealReporter, 3/19/13) Tom Starnes, analyst at Objective Analysis, which focuses on semiconductor market research, said firms can still deliver differentiated products with the ARM architecture...
EMC Unveils New Lineup of Xtrem Flash PCIe Storage Cards (eWeek, 3/5/13) Solid-state storage analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK in a forecast 18 months ago that the PCIe interface would become dominant in the…
Violin Memory expands its strategic alliance with Toshiba for Flash-based data centers (VentureBeat, 3/4/13) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said that the more deeply Toshiba is involved with Violin Memory, the less trouble it will be for…
Violin Memory moves into server-side flash with low-cost PCIe cards (TechTarget, 3/4/13) SSD analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said the Toshiba relationship will help Violin if there is a NAND shortage, which he expects to happen this year.
Analysis: Expect consolidation, uptick in flash arrays in 2013 (TechTarget 1/22/13) Jim Handy, SSD analyst for Objective Analysis, said all-flash array startups will have a tough time surviving…
Don't Miss This Sector in 2013 (Money Morning, 1/14/13) Even Forbes columnist Jim Handy - an industry analyst and former chip-industry insider who predicted a flat 2012 in the face of industry bullishness - is expecting a strong semi-sector showing in the New Year.
32-Bit Microcontrollers Hit New Lows (Microprocessor Report, Invited Article, 1/7/13) Microcontrollers have continued to play a large role in managing and controlling power consumed by other components and systems while, like other electronic components, reducing their own power consumption.
New SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative Projects Featured at Storage Visions 2013 (SNIA News Summary, 1/4/13) Jim Handy (Objective Analysis) who will examine how new storage developments are driving new storage systems with SSSI member panelists Jim Pappas (Intel), Paul Wassenberg (Marvell), Mike Fitzpatrick (Toshiba), Paul Luse (Intel), and Sumit Puri (LSI).
Ancient Aliens Fail: Electronics Industry Looks to 2013 (Electronic Design, Invited Article, 12/17/12) Is the PC becoming the WC – the Work Computer?… Many silicon vendors have backed away from the cutthroat smart phone industry…
Industry View: Objective Analysis on Cypress, Ramtron (EE Times, 10/15/12) We talked with analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis to get his take on the dynamics of the deal and what it might mean for the memory market.
Violin Plays Requiem for the Dying Hard Drive (Wired, 10/23/12) “Violin has gone from being a very technical company run by engineers to being a company that knows business and PR,” says Jim Handy, an analyst with research outfit Objective Analysis.
The 3D die stack tack: Toshiba builds towering column of flash (The Register, 10/15/12) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said; "It makes sense that ReRAM would be used in performance applications
NetApp OEM deal helps GridIron widen SAN accelerator platform (TechTarget, 10/1/12) Jim Handy, director at Objective Analysis, said the NetApp partnership gives GridIron credibility.
Cadence Reveals World's First 28nm DDR4 Memory Controller (X-bit Labs, 9/10/12) “ASIC designers who want to take advantage of that pricing are likely to need a lot of help putting a reliable interface on their products,” said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Shortages Surface in NAND Flash (Chip Design, 9/7/12) Prices for NAND hit $0.31/GB in June, but they went back up to $0.36/GB in August, according to Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis, a research firm.
Cadence Announces Industry's First DDR4 Design IP Solutions Are ... (Nanowerk LLC, 9/4/12) “DDR4 is going to be the next big thing in DRAMs, but its signaling is challenging to handle,” said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Swissbit Readies Next Growth Phase (Chip Design Magazine, 8/31/12) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis, a research firm, said that Swissbit is well positioned in the market.
MLC NAND-based Embedded SSDs operate from -40 to +85°C (ThomasNet, 8/24/12) “Until now, embedded systems that required industrial temperature solid state storage had to use more expensive SLC NAND," said Jim Handy, principal analyst, Objective Analysis.
IBM buys solid-state storage maker Texas Memory Systems (ElectroIQ, 8/16/12) “This acquisition will give leading solid state performance to a company that firmly believes that solid state will become a new layer between storage and memory,” said Jim Handy of analyst firm Objective Analysis.
LSI SandForce SF-2200/2100 Client Flash Storage Processors Debut (Benchmark Reviews, 8/15/12) “Client computing customers are increasingly turning to the benefits of flash-based products to accelerate application performance and deliver an enhanced user experience,” said Jim Handy, SSD analyst for Objective Analysis.
Micron's Elpida acquisition: Analysts weigh in (Solid State Technology, 7/7/12) Micron expects to grow to 21% market share in memory semiconductors, overtaking Hynix (16%) and drawing closer to #1 Samsung (34%), estimates Objective Analysis’ Jim Handy and Lane Mason.
Micron ‘fesses up: Yes, we plan to eat limping DRAMurai warrior (The Register, 7/4/12) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis says Micron “will also increase its mobile DRAM share to about one quarter of the market, which would be a few percentage points ahead of Hynix and about half of Samsung's share.”
Elpida, Rexchip purchases will make Micron second-largest DRAM Manufacturer (Idaho Business Review, 7/2/12) “Size matters in this business these days,” said Lane Mason, memory market analyst with Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif.
Micron's DRAM buyout makes it a key Apple supplier (ComputerWorld, 7/2/12) Jim Handy, director of research firm Objective Analysis, said that with DRAM marketplace revenues growing at rate of about 5% year over year, Micron could not have afforded to build a new fabrication facility.
Micron buying Elpida: report (Idaho Business Review, 6/29/12) Whether Micron buys Elpida depends on how Micron pays, such as with additional stock or debt, said Lane Mason, memory market analyst with Objective Analysis, Los Gatos, Calif.
Flash Drives Replace Disks At Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox (Wired, 6/13/12) In 2011, according to Jim Handy, an analyst with research outfit Objective Analysis, businesses purchased an estimated 7.9 million SSDs that connect to servers using the serial-ATA interface — i.e., the interface that traditional hard drives use.
LSI First to Publicly Demonstrate SSDs with Toshiba 19nm and Intel 20nm Flash Memories (Sacramento Bee, 6/4/12) “SSD users want to benefit from the significant cost advantages of the leading flash processes, but most SSD controllers can't support the complexities of the most advanced chips,” said Jim Handy, SSD analyst for Objective Analysis.
Foundries Expand Embedded Memory Portfolios (Chip Design, 5/30/12) Given those scenarios, embedded memory is becoming even more important in designs, said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis, a research firm.
Flash Drives Replace Disks At Amazon, Facebook, Dropbox (Wired, 6/13/12) In 2011, according to Jim Handy, an analyst with research outfit Objective Analysis, businesses purchased an estimated 7.9 million SSDs that connect to servers using the serial-ATA interface — i.e., the interface that traditional hard drives use.
LSI First to Publicly Demonstrate SSDs with Toshiba 19nm and Intel 20nm Flash Memories (Sacramento Bee, 6/4/12) “SSD users want to benefit from the significant cost advantages of the leading flash processes, but most SSD controllers can't support the complexities of the most advanced chips,” said Jim Handy, SSD analyst for Objective Analysis.
Foundries Expand Embedded Memory Portfolios (Chip Design, 5/30/12) Given those scenarios, embedded memory is becoming even more important in designs, said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis, a research firm.
Will Power Problems Curtail Processor Progress? (IEEE Computer, May 2012) “Facing the challenges of power forces us to be far more efficient in everything about our designs,” said analyst Tom Starnes of market research firm Objective Analysis.
Talk from the hip at Microchip (EETimes, 5/7/12) Tom Starnes, embedded processor analyst at Objective Analysis, believes that Microchip has always done a good job “of making their MCUs accessible to ‘the little guy’…
Intel Ships New SSD 330 Series, but Limits It to 180GB Storage (PC World, 4/16/12) The new drives could be targeted at those who want to upgrade storage on older PCs from hard drives to SSDs, said Jim Handy, director at analyst firm Objective Analysis.
Who wants Elpida and why? Analysts weigh in (EE Times, Invited Article, 4/11/12) No one needs more DRAM capacity. No one needs to make DRAMs in Japan with the yen at 82. No one needs the tool set that Elpida has…
PCIe Encroaching On SAN Space (Network Computing, 4/11/12) Jim Handy, an SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, calls PCIe “an interesting and complex issue.”
There's More To Enterprise SSDs Than Just Speed (Network Computing, 4/10/12) Organizations that are purchasing solid-state storage are doing so typically to solve speed problems, remarks Jim Handy, analyst, Objective Analysis
Intel ships SSDs that help laptops boot faster (Computerworld, 4/5/12) Offering smaller SSDs that act as a temporary storage cache to get computers started is a cost-effective way of getting SSD performance into laptops, said Jim Handy, director at Objective Analysis.
LSI Launches New Nytro PCIe Product Line (eWeek, 4/2/12) Solid-state storage analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis has forecast that the PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise SSD market in 2012…
Intel cashes in its chips with Micron, bets on post-flash riches (The Register, 3/2/12) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis reckons the explanation is straightforward.
ISSCC from a memory analyst’s view (ElectroIQ, Invited Article, 3/2/12) As happens every year, ISSCC included several intriguing papers that showed not only directions that the market is heading, but also the challenges confronting chip makers as we approach the end of scaling for both NAND and DRAM.
Silicon Valley companies grapple with rising costs in China (San Jose Mercury News, 3/2/12) Jim Handy, principal analyst at Objective Analysis, said Apple can use its market dominance in certain products to drive down costs.
New White Paper on Achieving Enterprise Reliability With Solid-State Speed (MarketWatch, 2/29/12) Jim Handy, an analyst with the market research firm Objective Analysis, discusses how enterprises are increasingly turning to solid-state storage as their data volumes and performance needs intensify.
Texas Memory Systems Releases 24TB 1U Flash Storage Appliance (HPCwire, 2/28/12) “Flash memory has gained a lot of acceptance in the data center, but many don't use it today for a very good reason - the technology is worrisome,” said Jim Handy, SSD analyst at Objective Analysis.
Japan’s big memory chip maker Elpida files for bankruptcy protection (Venturebeat, 2/27/12) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said, “Elpida has good technology, but is simply unable to compete…
SanDisk Says Latest Chip Leads Data-Packing Pack (Wall Street Journal, 2/22/12) Jim Handy, an analyst who tracks the memory market for the firm Objective Analysis, estimates that SanDisk should have a cost per gigabyte of data in the range of 28 cents…
SanDisk makes 128-gigabit flash chip, crams three bits per cell, takes afternoon off (Engadget, 2/22/12) Analyst Jim Handy estimates that the price per gigabyte for the tri-bit breed of flash could be as low as 28 cents…
EMC Unveils Solid-State Memory Card for Servers (eWeek, 2/8/12) Analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said his firm is forecasting that the NAND flash-powered PCIe interface will become dominant…
Micron (MU) CEO dies unexpectedly; company shares succession plan (ElectroIQ, 2/6/12) Appleton was "a great leader" and accomplished aerobat, said Jim Handy of OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS, Semiconductor Market Research, in an alert compiled with help from Lane Mason.
USB: 3.0 Taking Hold and Gearing for the Future (RTC Magazine December 2011) Tom Starnes, senior analyst for Objective Analysis, added that the USB design itself is cumbersome—what he calls “awkward compatibility.”
Chip Maker Elpida Looks Fried (Wall Street Journal, 1/29/12) But to be viable in the capital-intensive chip business, revenue must keep pace with the 12% yearly rise in the cost of building a plant, says analyst Jim Handy at semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis.
Confidence returns to oft-troubled Hynix (Korea Times, 1/24/12) “This year is likely to be a time when the DRAM market consolidates a little bit more,” said Jim Handy from Objective Analysis.
Micron Bolsters PCIe Virtualization With Virtensys Acquisition (eWeek, 1/20/12) Analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said his firm is forecasting that the NAND flash-powered PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise solid-state disk market in 2012, with unit shipments greater than the combined shipments of its SAS and Fibre Channel counterparts.
Forecast season gets underway (Electronics Weekly 1/20/12) The forecast season is well underway. Forbes contributor Jim Handy has compiled this useful list of where they stand as of now.
LSI Contributes as Everspin Realizes In Excess of 300% Growth in 2011 MRAM Shipments (The SSD Review, 1/19/12) “MRAM has gained acceptance as a superior alternative to non-volatile SRAM for RAID controllers, allowing Everspin to capitalize on its unique position as a high-volume MRAM supplier,” said Jim Handy, analyst with Objective Analysis.
MRAM firm claims 250 design wins in 2011 (EE Times 1/19/12) A statement released by Everspin Wednesday (Jan. 18) quoted Jim Handy, an analyst with market research and consulting firm Objective Analysis, saying MRAM has gained acceptance as a superior alternative to non-volatile SRAM for disk array controllers.
Memory Considerations for Faster MCUs (DigiKey, Invited Article, 1/18/12) Flash memory completely dominates microcontrollers (MCUs) now, but memory considerations have become more complex as the processors have advanced to 32-bit architectures and peripherals have become much more capable.
Could MRAM ultimately replace DRAM? (Network World, 1/18/12) MRAM has promise as a memory technology as it can scale down more effectively than DRAM and NAND flash, said Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analysis.
Everspin triples growth for magnetic RAM chips in 2011 (VentureBeat, 1/18/12) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said that MRAM has gained traction as a superior alternative to non-volatile SRAM chips for RAID controllers…
Dell plots PCIe-flash with memory pooling (ZDNet, 1/14/12) If Dell is planning a piece of kit that marries PCIe flash cards with RNA software, then substantial development work will have been required, Objective Analysis's Jim Handy said.
IBM Discovers How to Store Data in a Dozen Atoms (E-Commerce Times, 1/13/12) “What's interesting about this is, people have wondered where the brick wall is -- the maximum amount of data that can be stored magnetically,” Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, told TechNewsWorld.
Falling memory prices may bring irritating, intrusive devices (Computerworld, 1/8/12) NAND flash memory prices are expected to decline by half by the end of the year, from 70 cents a GB to 35 cents, keeping with historical price declines, said Jim Handy, chief analyst at market research firm Objective Analysis.
Fading Memory Saps Chip Makers (Wall Street Journal, 1/6/12) “Since the market isn't growing as fast as the companies need to grow to be able to afford the next fab, the companies pretty much have to savage each other and take market share away from each other,” says Jim Handy, analyst at semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis.
2012: Flash To Supplant Disk? (Network Computing, 12/29/11) The flooding in Thailand is not the only economic driver for SSDs, notes analyst Jim Handy, Objective Analysis.
Clouds Loom On The 2012 Semiconductor Horizon (Electronic Design, Invited Article, 12/27/11) Overall, 2012 will be characterized by a contraction in semiconductors compared to a weak 2011.
Apple's Purchase of Anobit Will Give It a Leg Up on Rivals (PC World, 12/27/11) Objective Analysis analyst Jim Handy said Apple won't be saving much money by owning its own controller technology.
Apple Buying Anobit as it Builds IP Portfolio (Chip Design, 12/22/11) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, said Apple wants to “prevent other companies from having access to the technology.
UCSD lab studies future changes to non-volatile memory technologies (Search Storage, 11/29/11) Jim Handy, founder and chief analyst at Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif., noted that Fusion-io and Schooner Information Technology Inc. have been writing code optimized for NAND flash technology.
New memory technologies generate attention as successors to NAND flash (Search Storage, 11/22/11) “These absolute geniuses in the R&D labs keep coming up with ways to push it just one or two more process steps, and they’ve been doing that for almost 10 years,” said Jim Handy, founder and chief analyst at Object Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif.
LSI to buy flash controller maker SandForce (Computerworld, 10/27/11) “SandForce has sold SSD controllers to market leading companies including LSI’s partner Seagate,” said Objective Analysis analyst Jim Handy.
What flash needs is a little TLC (The Register, 10/20/11) According to Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, SanDisk is the TLC market leader.
New RAM shunts data into flash in power cuts (The Register, 10/19/11) Jim Handy, an analyst for Objective Analysis, said: “Data centres have addressed certain needs in the past by using battery-backed DRAM, an approach that leaves most data centre managers feeling vulnerable.”
Tablets, Smartphones to Get Speed Boost With New Memory (PCWorld, 9/29/11) In prior renditions of synchronous DRAM such as SDRAM, DDR and DDR2, JEDEC pushed hard on speed without worrying too much about power, said Jim Handy, director of Objective Analysis.
Flashy Stuff – Storage is All About Performance (Consumer Electronics Net, 9/16/11) Troy Winslow, of Intel, and Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis, agreed that even this growing market can't support all of the players and there will be consolidation and weak players will disappear.
MLC drives, PCIe technology give SSDs run for their money (SearchStorage.com, 8/26/11) “The drive makers have found ways to get past MLC’s limited endurance,” said Jim Handy, chief analyst at Objective Analysis
Texas Memory Systems challenges high-end hard drives with new flash product (Computerworld, 8/23/11) According to Jim Handy, an analyst at market research firm Objective Analysis, TMS has been one of the last holdouts in the enterprise MLC (eMLC) space, sticking with SLC-only products longer than others.
STEC Newest Flash Vendor to Move Into PCIe Market (eWeek, 8/11/11) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK his firm is forecasting that the PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise SSD market in 2012
eBay goes big on Nimbus all-SSD system (Computer Weekly, 8/10/11) Jim Handy, chief analyst with Objective Analysis, told Computer Weekly chief information officers are looking to replace their traditional disk drive systems with flash because of the significant performance advantage it offers.
LSI SSD Caching Software 2.0: The Write Stuff (Network Computing, 8/10/11) There are very few systems that already do this the way that CacheCade does, an approach commonly called automatic data placement, says analyst Jim Handy, Objective Analysis.
eBay Bets On Flash (Baseline 8/9/11) Jim Handy, chief analyst with Objective Analysis describes the eBay implementation as a “testimonial to the merits of flash in large-scale environments.”
Spansion Announces Industry's First 4Gb NOR Flash Memory (Sacramento Bee, 8/9/11) “Spansion has executed well delivering differentiated NOR Flash memory products based on its MirrorBit charge-trapping technology,” said Jim Handy, president, Objective Analysis.
Data Storage: Huge Digital Media Demand, PCIe Adoption Lead Storage Trends in Mid-2011 (eWeek, 8/4/11) Solid-state storage analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK his firm is forecasting that the PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise SSD market in 2012…
Samsung-Grandis spotlights MRAM potential, and NAND's chokehold (ElectroIQ, 8/3/11) Unfortunately for them, current memory technologies have continued to scale well enough to keep next-gen memory technologies at bay. Intel famously said back in 2003 that NAND flash wouldn't be able to scale past the 60nm node, and now it's at 20nm and counting, Jim Handy from Objective Analysis told SST.
Five Key Storage Trends Causing Talk in Mid-2011 (eWeek, 8/2/11) Analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK his firm is forecasting that the NAND flash-powered PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise solid-state disk market in 2012…
OCZ's New PCIe Flash Card Can Serve as Tier 1 Storage Layer (eWeeek, 8/2/11) Industry analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK his firm is forecasting that the PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise SSD market in 2012
eBay goes big on Nimbus all-SSD system (SearchStorage, 8/2/11) “That’s not the kind of price that people think of when they think of solid-state storage,” said Jim Handy, chief analyst at semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis.
OCZ Technology Launches Next Generation Z-Drive R4 PCI Express Solid State Storage Systems (MarketWatch, 8/2/11) “Objective Analysis forecasts that the PCIe interface will become dominant in the enterprise SSD market in 2012, with unit shipments greater than the combined shipments of its SAS and Fibre Channel counterparts,” said SSD analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
IBM Validates Violin’s 37X Faster Flash Memory Array (Information Week, 7/25/11) This is a significant development, said analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Recovery in Japan’s Supply Chain (Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU Radio (NPR), 7/19/11) “Think about the extraordinary power of this earthquake. It was a 9.0. It was 100 times as large as the earthquake that struck San Francisco back in 1989.”
Seagate Shipping Pulsar XT.2 Solid State Drive (Tom’s Hardware, 7/18/11) “Most SSD suppliers aren’t fully aware of the needs of the enterprise,” said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Could NAND flash kill DRAM in PCs? (Computerworld, 7/18/11) “Over time, the price/performance gap between these two technologies will widen, driving NAND to become the memory of choice in the PC,” said Jim Handy, the author of the study.
Seagate Begins to Ship Pulsar Solid-State Drives. (Xbit Laboratories, 7/18/11) “Seagate’s undeniable leadership in the enterprise HDD market has given the company a deep understanding of the necessity of data integrity and endurance,” said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Toshiba, SanDisk build fab to withstand earthquakes (IDG 7/12/11) Toshiba and competitor Samsung build “megafabs” for NAND flash, and Fab 5 is a very advanced manufacturing facility, said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
FlashSoft raises $3M for software that speeds data center processing (Venturebeat, 6/28/11) …sales of enterprise flash memory (solid state drives) are growing to 4 million units in 2015, up 50 times from 2010 numbers, according to market researcher Objective Analysis.
Mac OS X update supports SSD optimization (Computerworld – 6/28/11) Jim Handy, an analyst with market research firm Objective Analysis, said Apple's build-to-order systems will benefit from the TRIM command because the SSDs will no longer need to guess at what is valid data and what is no longer needed by the OS.
OCZ Introduces New Solid State Drive That Clocks 80000 IOPS (Network Computing, 6/21/11) However, Jim Handy, an analyst with the research firm Objective Analysis, cautions that these benchmarks are not from an independent firm because there aren't yet firms that do performance benchmarks on SSDs, as there are for, say, semiconductors.
OCZ Introduces Deneva 2 SSD-Series for Enterprise Applications (xBit Labs, 6/21/11) Objective Analysis forecasts for enterprise SSD unit shipments to grow at an average annual rate of 83%, nearly doubling every year," said Jim Handy, an SSD analyst with Objective Analysis.
Memory’s next big leap: solid-state drives (The Globe and Mail, 6/11/11) The market research company Objective Analysis has forecast the hybrid HDD market will grow to 600 million units by 2016, with $34-billion in revenue.
Probability chip start-up bought by Analog Devices (ZDNet UK, 6/15/11) “Analog Devices is pretty solid in high-quality analogue, though they seem to have backed away from the digital signal processing and microcontrollers/processors space that they were into five to 15 years ago,” Tom Starnes, an analyst at Objective Analysis, told ZDNet UK.
Future Of HDD Market Lies In Hybrid Drives (Information Week, 6/10/11) The drive has been very successful and Seagate anticipates that in five years, 80% of drives shipped will be hybrid drives, said Jim Handy, analyst with Objective Analysis, in an interview.
Intel Nips at Smartphone Market (TheStreet.com, 6/8/11) “Medfield is a small step closer,” Tom Starnes, an analyst at semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis, told TheStreet. “[But] it’s not like the grappling hook is over the wall and you know that you’re in.”
IO Turbine Solves VMware I/O Bottlenecks (Network Computing, 5/27/11) SSDs bring something to the party that's not well aligned to existing system architectures, but Accelio is designed to help work around this problem, says Jim Handy, semiconductor market research, Objective Analysis.
Freescale Semiconductor Launches IPO (Information Week, 5/26/11) “It's a relief of debt burden for them, but it’s not the magic bullet for them either,” said Tom Starnes, an analyst for Objective Analysis.
Kingmax Claims First 64-GB MicroSD Card (Information Week, 5/26/11) However, Kingmax's chips would barely fit into a microSD card since a microSD measures 15 by 10 millimeters at its narrowest point, Jim Handy, an analyst for Objective Analysis, said in an InformationWeek interview.
Enterprise SSD testing spec released (Computerworld, 5/23/11) Jim Handy, an analyst at market research firm Objective Analysis who was in the specification's technical working group, said, “The SNIA test specification is not an end-all, but it is certainly a big step ahead of the specifications that are commonly used by SSD makers.”
Chip Start-Up Joins With Russia In Memory Deal (Wall Street Journal, 5/17/11) The popularity of MRAMs will depend on how quickly manufacturers can drive down the price relative to other products, noted Jim Handy, an analyst with the market-research firm Objective Analysis.
SanDisk buys SSD firm (EE Times, 5/16/11) “Until today SanDisk was doing nothing to participate in this market,” added Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Microcontroller supply chain is out of control (EE Times, 5/5/11) “I have heard of (MCU) shortages, indeed some from Renesas,” said Tom Starnes, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
A Japanese Plant Struggles to Produce a Critical Auto Part (New York Times, 4/27/11) “These microcontrollers are different in small but important ways,” said Tom Starnes, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a technology research firm.
SanDisk-Toshiba reclaim NAND lead (EETimes, 4/21/11?) “Note that the (SanDisk-Toshiba duo) are not yet sampling the 19-nm part,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Seagate-Samsung Analysis: The Book Drops to Three Letters (Bright Side of News, 4/20/11) In 2009 Objective Analysis compiled a brief: Why the DRAM Market Must Consolidate.
Toshiba claims flash record with 19nm process (eWeek LinuxDevices, 4/20/11) EETimes also quotes Objective-Analysis analyst Jim Handy as saying the 19nm technology is “impressive.”
Intel, Micron Shrink NAND Flash (InformationWeek, 4/14/11) “There is no other semiconductor manufacturer using a 20-nm process,” Jim Handy, analyst for Objective Analysis, said in an interview.
Your MCU is Just Starting to be Connected (Tech-Zone Magazine, Invited Article, April 2011) Microcontroller vendors have been taking care of your connectivity and communications needs.
Pro Audio Reacts to Japan Disaster (Pro Sound News, 4/11/11) Researcher Tom Starns of Objective Analysis explained, “Of the $300B of semiconductor chips sold last year, nearly $50B were sold to or within Japan...”
10 Hot SSD Implementations (Enterprise Storage Forum, 4/22/11) But Jim Handy, an SSD analyst for Objective Analysis said that is never going to happen. SSD prices may be dropping rapidly, but hard drive prices are falling just as fast.
Japan disasters may ripple in NZ channels (Reseller News, 4/11/11) The NAND market reacted strongly because Japan supplies as much as 40 percent of the world’s NAND flash chips, according to Jim Handy , at Objective Analysis.
Insider trading sting reverberates throughout the tech industry (EDN, 4/5/11 ?) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, which conducts market research on the semiconductor industry, has been a consultant for Gerson Lehrman Group since 2003.
NAND supply still unstable (EE Times, 4/4/11?) “I would think that, at the latest, it would slip into 1Q ‘12,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Experts see wide use of flash-hard disk hybrids by 2016 (ComputerWorld, 4/4/11) For that reason, most PCs will still have hard disk drives in the years ahead, said Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates, and Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
Japan's Disasters Leading to Higher Priced Electronics (TMC.net, 3/31/11) Contrary to what Dauvin is saying, semiconductor analyst Jim Handy doesn't think that the ripple effect will extend to the consumer.
A Tale of Two iThings (MacNewsWorld, 3/30/11) The processor could be produced at multiple sites so supply won't be impacted by one or more sites' going down, for example, Tom Starnes, an analyst at Objective Analysis, told MacNewsWorld.
Micron’s CEO unsure of quake’s net effect (Lao Yao Ba, 3/26/11) Tom Starnes, an analyst with Objective Analysis, said in a report circulated earlier this week that infrastructure problems and rolling blackouts could continue to affect semiconductor and end-equipment manufacturers even far from the earthquake area for some time to come.
Two Weeks After Japan Earthquake, IT Industry Faces Hurdles (IDG News, 3/25/11) “Products like microcontrollers and DSPs can't simply be swapped out for another chip, whether from the same vendor or another,” said Tom Starnes, an embedded processor analyst at Objective Analysis in Austin, Texas.
Effect of Japan Quake on Semiconductor Industry Still Unclear (eWeek, 3/24/11) … the two variables undeniably in need of stability are people and industry, said Tom Starnes, author of the Objective Analysis report.
On Semi says two fabs still down (EE Times, 3/24/11) “Semiconductor manufacturing requires consistent, high-quality electricity, and disruptions in water and power look may continue to affect semiconductor and end-equipment manufacturers even far from the earthquake area for some time to come,” said Tom Starnes, an analyst with consulting firm Objective Analysis
Magid: U.S. needs to rein in energy use and re-think nuclear power (San Jose Mercury News, 3/24/11?) Although it’s unlikely to result in bare shelves at the retail level, there is concern about shortages of flash memory and other electronic components manufactured in Japan, according to Jim Handy, a Los Gatos-based analyst with Objective Analysis.
Samsung offers a peek into mobile trends of the future (VentureBeat, 3/23/11) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, noted that Samsung’s progress on chip manufacturing is not unique.
Japan: Power cuts impact semiconductor manufacturers (Japan: Stromausfälle setzen Halbleiterherstellern zu) (Produktion, 3/22/11) Even if only a small proportion of Japan’s electricity demand was supplied by the decommissioned nuclear power plants - about 2%, according to the American analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, the state of the network and the associated losses has greater meaning.
Japan Earthquake Rattles Chip Production: Report (eWeek, 3/21/11) Market research firm Objective Analysis claimed March 11 that more than 40 percent of the world’s NAND flash memory chips and 15 percent of global DRAM supplies hail from Japan.
Magid: U.S. needs to rein in energy use and re-think nuclear power (San Jose Mercury News, 3/21/11) …there is concern about shortages of flash memory and other electronic components manufactured in Japan, according to Jim Handy, a Los Gatos-based analyst with Objective Analysis.
Analysts: Half of PCs to incorporate flash memory plus HDDs by 2016 (FierceCIO, 3/20/11) ... Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, in a report published by the Storage Networking Industry Association, said that pairing flash memory with HDDs will result in better overall performance…
Japan disasters could result in gadget shortages (San Jose Mercury News, 3/19/11?) “It’s probably going to be another week before we have a clear picture of where everything is and where everything is headed,” said Jim Handy, principal analyst and director at Objective Analysis.
Experts See Wide Use of Flash-hard Disk Hybrids by 2016 (PC World, 3/18/11) Although the quieter, faster, more shock-absorbent SSDs are replacing HDDs in new computers, their relatively high cost will keep HDDs in most PCs over the years ahead, said Tom Coughlin, president of Coughlin Associates, and Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Japan Earthquake Affecting Flash Storage Production, Especially for iPad 2s (Yottabytes: Storage and Disaster Recovery (Blog), 3/18/11) While Japan is no stranger to earthquakes, the power of this one dwarfed previous quakes, said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis in a report on March 11.
Intel, Qualcomm Say Japan Disaster Won't Hurt Chip Production (eWeek 3/17/11) Jim Handy, an analyst with market research firm Objective Analysis, said in a March 11 report that given the size of the computer component industry in Japan—more than 40 percent of the NAND flash memory chips and about 15 percent of the global DRAM supplies are made in the country, he said—any blip in the manufacturing schedule could have a ripple effect throughout the tech industry.
Now, a Weak Link in the Global Supply Chain (BusinessWeek 3/16/11?) If the crisis leads to extended shutdowns, “then we just have an almost apocalyptic shortage,” says Jim Handy, an analyst with research firm Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif.
Japan's effect on recovery a worry (Boston Globe, 3/15/11?) Jim Handy, the principal analyst at Objective Analysis, a research firm in California’s Silicon Valley, said several semiconductor plants in southern Japan, hundreds of miles from the epicenter of the earthquake, have closed temporarily to make safety checks and adjustments to sensitive equipment.
Magid on Tech: How the Japanese tsunami is affecting tech supply (San Jose Mercury News, 3/15/11) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said that he is concerned about components shortages, including flash memory, which is essential for smart phones, tablets and digital cameras.
How the Quake Affects the Chip Supply Chain (Seeking Alpha, 3/15/11?) “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake,” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
Japanese crisis takes toll on Electronics cos (Economic Times, 3/15/11) The daily spot market for those chips rose 10 to 27 per cent, said Jim Handy , founder of Objective Analysis, a semiconductor manufacturing research firm in Silicon Valley, who has been tracking these prices.
Will Japan's Disaster Hurt The Global Economy? (NPR, 3/15/11) “I’m talking about things like cell phones that have fancier graphics on them,” says Jim Handy, who follows the semiconductor industry for the market research firm Objective Analysis.
Tech, business fallout from Japan disaster (Silicon Valley.com, 3/15/11) A Wall Street Journal article quotes Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis: “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake.
Flash, DRAM prices spike on worries over supplies from Japan (IDG News Service, 3/15/11) The NAND market has reacted so strongly because Japan supplies as much as 40 percent of the world's NAND flash chips, according to Jim Handy , at Objective Analysis.
Japan Disaster Another Worry For Global Economy (Associated Press, 3/15/11) Prices for the chips jumped 10 percent from before the earthquake to Monday and another 3 percent Tuesday, according to Jim Handy, a director at Objective Analysis and an expert on the electronics and semiconductor industries.
Japan Moves 8 Feet Over And 633 Points Down (Business Insider, 3/14/11) the earthquake could seriously affect worldwide semiconductor supplies, according to analysts such as Jim Handy of research firm Objective Analysis.
Quake Sparks Tech Supply Shortage Concerns (Wall Street Journal, 3/14/11) “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake,” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
In Silicon Valley, no immediate threat to supply chains from Japan disaster (SiliconValley.com, 3/14/11) “It's really too early to tell what is going to change and what is not,” said Jim Handy, the principal analyst at Objective Analysis.
Ripple effect of Japan disasters on consumer electronics (podcast) (CNET, 3/14/11) While most Japanese wafer fabrication plants (“fabs”) are located in the southern part of the country, hundreds of miles from the epicenter, at least one manufacturer is still shut down after last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, according to Jim Handy, an analyst with semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis.
In Silicon Valley, no immediate threat to supply chains from Japan disaster (San Jose Mercury News, 3/14/11) “It's really too early to tell what is going to change and what is not,” said Jim Handy, the principal analyst at Objective Analysis.
Local Analyst Describes Impact of Japan Quake on Silicon Valley (Los Gatos Observer, 3/14/11) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis in Los Gatos is warning that the earthquake in Japan will undoubtedly affect Silicon Valley.
Japan Disaster Could Lead to Considerable Supply Chain Issues (Techzone 360, 3/14/11) “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake,” Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, told the Wall Street Journal.
DATE 2011 in context (EDN, 3/14/11) In an email report received just hours after the earthquake hit, Jim Handy at Objective Analysis said, “Over 40% of the world's NAND flash and roughly 15% of the world's DRAM are manufactured in Japan.”
Chip Prices Rise As Japan Quake Sparks Supply Shortage Concerns (Wall Street Journal, 3/14/11) “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake,” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
Freescale, Texas Instruments feel affects of Japan disaster (Austin American-Statesman, 3/14/11?) Industry analyst Jim Handy with Objective Analysis said details on the exact impact from the quake remain sketchy from many companies.
Japan Reactor Problems Seen Affecting Chip Industry (PC Magazine, 3/14/11) “Japan is a significant source of chips to support consumer electronics devices,” Objective Analysis, a chip research house, wrote Friday.
Japan Earthquake Could Shake Up Semiconductor Industry (eWeek, 3/14/11) According to Jim Handy, an analyst with semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis, more than 40 percent of the NAND flash memory chips and about 15 percent of the global DRAM supplies are made in Japan…
Earthquake in Japan jolts global supply chain (NPR Marketplace, 3/14/11 (Podcast Transcription)) Jim Hardy follows the semi-conductor market for the firm Objective Analysis. He estimates about a dozen semi-conductor plants have been knocked out of production, at least temporarily.
Japan Earthquake Halts CE Production (Home Media Magazine, 3/14/11) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif., said the quake/tsunami and ongoing concerns regarding radiation leaks near affected nuclear power plants could easily halt CE production at least two weeks, resulting in higher retail prices.
How Badly Will the Japan Quake Hurt the Global Economy? (New Republic, 3/14/11) Supplies from Japan, he says, could be disrupted for months. And Jim Handy, an executive at the semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis, has said he expects “phenomenal” price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of the quake.
Disruptions of Power and Water Threaten Japan's Economy (New York Times, 3/13/11) “There will be a lot of nervousness,” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a semiconductor research firm.
Memory-Chip Prices Surge On Asia Spot Market Following Japan Earthquake (The Wall Street Journal, 3/13/11) According to market research firm Objective Analysis, more than 40% of the world's NAND flash and roughly 15% of the world's DRAM chips are manufactured in Japan.
The Economic Impact of Japan's Monster Quake (Seeking Alpha, 3/13/11) Because Japan produces more than 40% of the world's NAND flash memory chips -- and 15% of its DRAM -- the earthquake could seriously affect worldwide semiconductor supplies, according to analysts such as Jim Handy of research firm Objective Analysis.
Northern quake spared industrial heartland (Economic Times, 3/12/11) Japan, for example, produces 40% of lightweight memory chips most commonly used for storage in digital music players, smart phones and tablet computers, estimated Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a research firm.
Initial assessments of the Japanese earthquake show little impact on the PV supply chain (PV Tech, 3/12/11) Market research firm Objective Analysis provided location map for the semiconductor plants in Japan in relation to where the earthquake epicentre was and greatest impact from the tsunami that followed.
Japan quake may hit flash memory chip supply (CNET, 3/12/11) Over 40 percent of the world's NAND flash and roughly 15 percent of the world's DRAM are manufactured in Japan, according to a report released today by Objective Analysis, a firm that does semiconductor-related market research.
Japan earthquake's impact on semiconductor community (Solid State Technology, 3/11/11) Jim Handy, a director of Objective Analysis semiconductor market research, shares his insights into Japan's semiconductor fabs and the quake's impact range.
Japan quake could hit semiconductor production, prices (ComputerWorld, 3/11/11) According to Jim Handy, an analyst with semiconductor research firm Objective Analysis, it would not take a large drop in wafer production to cause prices to increase dramatically.
Japanese Quake’s Impact on Wafer Fabs (IEEE Spectrum, 3/11/11) The total damage caused by today's 9.0-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan is unclear, but analyst Jim Handy at Objective Analysis questions the impact on the country's semiconductor wafer fabrication plants.
Japan Earthquake Predicted To Cause Semiconductor Shortages (Information Week, 3/11/11) “There’s fabs (fabrication plants) all over Japan,” Handy said in an interview. “Some are close to the epicenter of the earthquake and there's been building damage all the way from the east coast to Tokyo.” …according to market researcher Objective Analysis.
Japan Quake Prompts Memory Chip Price Hike (Jazzou News, 3/11/11) Meanwhile Jim Handy, an analyst from Objective Analysis is predicting large repercussions globally from the earthquake in the technology industry: “We expect phenomenal price swings and large near-tern shortages as a result of this earthquake.
Internet, Japan Tech Firms Withstand Quake (Investor’s Business Daily, 3/11/11) About 40% of the world's NAND flash memory and 15% of DRAMs — the most popular flash and computer memory chips — are made in Japan, Jim Handy, director at research firm Objective Analysis, wrote in a research note Friday.
How will Japan earthquake affect Apple’s iPad supply chain? (ZDnet, 3/11/11) According to analyst Jim Handy at Objective Anaysis Semiconductor Market Research, a number of Fujitsu and Toshiba manufacturing sites are located near the earthquake epicenter.
Los Gatos Analyst Predicts Chip Shortage in Wake of Japan Earthquake (Los Gatos Patch, 3/11/11) Making the rounds is a map produced by Los Gatos resident Jim Handy that shows semiconductor plants in Japan that have stopped operations or could shut down after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake.
Japan's Quake, Tsunami Could Disrupt Semiconductor Supplies, Raise Prices (Computer Reseller News, 3/11/11) “Objective Analysis anticipates phenomenal price swings and large near-term shortages as a result of this earthquake,” the analyst firm wrote.
Japan Earthquake Could Deal Blow to Semiconductor Industry (eWeek, 3/11/11) Japan also is a key source of chips that support such booming consumer electronics devices as smartphones, tablets and PCs, Jim Handy, an analyst with semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis, said in a March 11 report.
Analysts Predict Major Impact From Japan Quake (Semiconductor Manufacturing & Design, 3/11/11) Jim Handy, principal analyst at semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis (Los Gatos, Calif.), … noted that Japan also is a significant source of consumer electronics devices.
Earthquake Impacts Semiconductor Industry (Electronic Design, 3/11/11) I spoke with Jim Handy of Objective Analysis to find out how the earthquake will impact the semiconductor industry.
Analyst: Micron to retake NAND lead (EE Times, 2/22/11) At a recent event, Micron showed the 64-Gbit, “20-nm” part, which is expected to ship this year, said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Analyst: NAND market to ‘collapse’ (EE Times, 2/22/11) “We’ve been calling for a collapse (in the NAND market) in the second half of this year,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Tough years seen ahead for NOR flash (EE Times, 2/22/11) On Tuesday (Feb. 22), Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, said his firm expects NAND ASPs to collapse in the fourth quarter of this year.
The brand-new Spansion flashing memory products offer for embedded application and break through the characteristic (VOIP-Video, 2/17/11) The president Jim Handy of Objective Analytics Company shows: “Spansion carries out company’s strategy all the time, keeps in the particular embedded market leading position, and offer the solution out of the common on the basis of the appropriate MirrorBit technology of Spansion Company.
Spansion CEO pushes NOR for embedded (EE Times, 2/17/11) “Spansion is back and is in fine form to compete aggressively in this market,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Why SandForce Is Fast Moving Up the SSD Value Chain (eWeek, 2/16/11) Jim Handy, the respected SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, has bought into SandForce's story.
Spansion aims for a comeback with innovative flash memory (VentureBeat, 2/16/11) Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analytics, says the new chip family shows that the company’s technology has room to grow and that Spansion is executing well.
SandForce: More than one million SSD processors in first year of production (Artem,2/16/11) Jim Handy, SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, said: SandForce-based SSDs have received accolades from leading reviewers…
New Spansion GL Flash Memory Family Delivers Breakthrough Performance for Embedded Applications (Website Gear, 2/16/11) “Spansion continues to execute well against its strategy to lead in its target embedded markets and deliver differentiated solutions based on its proprietary MirrorBit technology,” said Jim Handy, president, Objective Analytics.
Why SandForce Is Fast Moving Up the SSD Value Chain (eWeek, 2/15/11) Jim Handy, the respected SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, has bought into SandForce's story…
Memory Industry Shakeup: Q&A with Jim Handy (Bnet, 2/4/11) For some clarity I spoke with memory expert Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Study: Market for hybrid hard drives doubled every year until 2016 (Battery Talk, 1/20/11) Jim Handy, writes: “We expect to double the hybrid hard drive market every year...
Analysts look at Storage Drivers – Storage Visions 2011 (Media & Entertainment Technologies, 1/20/11) Handy stated memory has two constants; prices always go down and technology changes.
2011 Semiconductor Memory Market Forecast with Jim Handy of Objective Analysis (WeSRCH, 1/19/11) A video with Jim Handy of Objective Analysis. We look into the boom of 2010 and the dynamics behind it as well as his projections for 2011.
Hitachi to ship SSDs with high-end arrays (ComputerWorld, 1/17/11) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis, said the cost of SSDs is only five to ten times higher than enterprise-class hard disk drives.
Microsoft's Windows on ARM Better for Partners Than Us (PC Magazine, 1/5/11) “People are used to how cell phones operate,” said Tom Starnes, an embedded processor analyst with Objective Analysis.
2011 heralds correction, analysts agree (EDN, 1/3/11) Jim Handy, director at Objective Analysis, pointed out that a lot of people are hanging their hats on tablets…
Toshiba, others invest $20M in flash memory array maker Violin ... (Assembly Line, 1/2/11) According to Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif., Toshiba's backing of Violin is key to the company’s continued growth since it will become a preferred customer.
A New Memory Company (Affiliates in Training, 12/29/10) Numonyx is in a good position to lead the industry in phase-change memory, says Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis
NVELO Demonstrates Flash Cache Storage Solution at Storage Visions 2011 (Benzinga, 12/28/10) Jim Handy, SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, notes, “By making SSD performance affordable, caching solutions like Dataplex have the ability to drastically change the landscape for SSD in client computing.”
Cheaper MLC NAND flash drives poised to drive enterprise SSD adoption (Search Storage, 12/23/10) The SLC chips cost approximately five times more per GB than MLC chips, said Jim Handy, founder and SSD analyst at Los Gatos, Calif-based Objective Analysis.
Micron ramps NAND fab without Intel (EE Times 12/22/10) “Intel has a different opinion about how to time their capital spending than Micron does, and their contract is written to accommodate that,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Analysis: As SSD of 100GB realizes price of 50 dollars is checked (Electronics Tech 12/22/10) People clasp the wrong expectation to SSD, the analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis Company points out.
Toshiba NAND Fab Suffers Power Outage Last Week (Storage Newsletter, 12/15/10) Objective Analysis anticipates a modest and temporary price increase…
DRAM And NAND Prices Will Collapse Later In 2011 (Electronic Design, Invited Article, 12/14/10) It’s bad enough when only one company adds production capacity, but in the world of semiconductors, all manufacturers add capacity simultaneously, causing a very sudden and dramatic shift from an undercapacity to a significant overcapacity.
Power Glitch Hits Toshiba's Flash Memory Production Line (PC World, 12/10/10) The impact on chip prices won't be big, said semiconductor market research company Objective Analysis.
SEMICON Report: Toshiba Plant Outage Supports Nand Flash Prices (Wall Street Journal, 12/10/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said he expects NAND flash prices will trend upwards for the next month or two.
Toshiba NAND shipments to slow due to power outage (Electronics Advocate, 12/10/10) Shipments of Toshiba’s NAND flash memory could be 20 percent lower through February due to a brief power outage on Wednesday at the company's manufacturing fab in Yokkaichi, Japan, reported Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Ixys revives Zilog amid a power trip (EE Times, 12/4/10) “This might be the approach being taken at Ixys, but they are not the only ones that are doing it,” agreed analyst Tom Starnes, who follows the microcontroller market for Objective Analysis.
Payment Applications Make E-Commerce Mobile (IEEE Computer, December 2010) Mobile-payment services must work on many types of phones and via the networks and billing services of many cellular-service providers, which adds complexity to the transaction process, said Tom Starnes, principal of market research firm Objective Analysis.
Anobiy Selectionnée par Intel Capital (Israel Valley, 11/28/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said it makes sense that Anobit's proprietary technology would be able to offer dramatically lower prices...
Hitachi GST Enters Enterprise SSD Market (GLG News, 11/18/10) SSD analyst Jim Handy, Objective Analysis, says the enterprise SSD market is the faster growing of the two SSD markets -- enterprise and client -- with expected average annual unit shipment growth of almost 90 percent.
Violin adds NFS cache with Gear6 software - Storage Soup (Storage Soup, 11/16/10) “If Flash is good, then more Flash is better,” said Objective Analysis analyst Jim Handy, who sees Cache as a way to avoid buying extra servers to run databases.
Analysis: Solid-state drives may be set for wider PC use (Reuters, 11/12/10) “If the big issue is changing the consumer mind-set, then Steve Jobs has the clout to have initiated that process,” said Jim Handy, a semiconductor expert at market research firm Objective Analysis.
Does the new MacBok Air predict the ending of the traditional disk (PRLog, 11/5/10) The objective-analystis Jim Handy pointed out that the price of NAND flash memory will decrease as it's oversupplied.
Opinion: MacBook Air could foretell death of laptop hard drives (MacWorld, 10/26/10) Typically, NAND flash prices undergo a dramatic collapse at the onset of an oversupply, according to Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
Are Hybrid Drives the Next Big Thing? (HotHardware 10/26/10) According to a new report by market research firm Objective Analysis, hybrid drives are primed to dominate the market.
Hybrid (flash + HDD) drives make a comeback (Infostor, 10/26/10) The biggest problem was that the early models didn't have onboard data management for the flash component, according to Jim Handy, director of the Objective Analysis research and consulting firm
Apple MacBook Air or indicating traditional hard disk era ends (Hu-Tui.com, 10/26/10) Objective-Analysis analyst Jim's Chinese of market survey is guided (Jim Handy) Point out NAND the intersection of flashing memory and price support, while asking will glide notably while being large, supply exceeds demand to accompany by manufacturers, raise the output, increase capital investment, appear always.
Hybrid hard-disk market set to take off (Cnet News, 10/25/10) The hybrid hard-disk drive market is expected to reach 600 million units in 2016, according to market researcher Objective Analysis.
Renesas readies mixed-signal MCUs (EE Times, 10/14/10) According to Tom Starnes, an analyst at market research firm Objective Analysis, companies like Microchip Technology Inc. and Freescale Semiconductor Inc. offer microcontrollers that incorporate some analog circuits.
SandForce rolls SSD processor line (EE Times, 10/7/10) “Samsung uses a proprietary controller (for their SSDs). So do SanDisk, Toshiba, Intel, and Micron,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Multicore processors: Now a movement (EE Times, Invited Article, 9/27/10) …to stay on the performance treadmill that Moore’s Law so aptly described, multicore is the only viable option.
STEC adds DRAM SSD for appliances; Violin launches MLC device for capacity (Search Storage, 9/20/10) Analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said the fast write-commit feature makes ZeusRAM a good fit for online transaction processing (OLT) applications.
Flash in the Can? More Powerful Next-Gen Memory Chips Wait in the Wings (Scientific American, 9/14/10) “HP’s memristor is made using a titanium oxide, which is not common to put on semiconductors and appears to be difficult to manage today,” says Jim Handy, an analyst with the semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis.
Pliant Technology introduces multi-level cell (MLC) solid-state drives (Search Storage, 9/8/10) Jim Handy, SSD analyst at semiconductor industry analyst firm Objective Analysis, said he thinks it's just a matter of time until MLC flash catches on in the enterprise.
Will Elpida shake up NAND market? (EE Times, 9/2/10) …future computers will include a NAND memory layer that will cause DRAM growth to slow down in all computing systems, from PCs to mainframes,'' said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
SSDs: Still not a ‘solid state’ business (EE Times 8/20/10) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, said SSDs are growing at about the rate he expected, but that this rate is slower than many had hoped.
NAND flash memory pricing to plummet to $1 per GB (Computerworld, 8/19/10) Objective Analysis research analyst Jim Handy disagreed with iSuppli's forecast, saying NAND flash memory is still suffering from a shortage and that prices are going to stay pretty flat till the second half of next year.
Down with Digital? New Circuit Design Promises to Take the Guesswork out of Probability Processing (Scientific American, 8/17/10) “We've been heading down a road of using digital logic more and more. If things become complicated, we just add transistors,” says Jim Handy, an analyst with the semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif.
SSDs may give you more bang for your DRAM (Network World, 8/17/10) There are key advantages to this type of implementation, especially cost savings. DRAM costs about 12 times as much per gigabyte as flash, and that gap is growing, according to analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Intel-Hitachi SSDs Fall Behind Schedule (PC World, 8/16/10) The enterprise flash business as a whole, which has faced some stumbling blocks over the years, is still growing fast, according to analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Chip startup Smooth-Stone raises $48M in backing (Austin American-Statesman, 8/15/10) ARM-based designs “are the natural thing to put in there,” said analyst Tom Starnes with Objective Analysis, “because the ARM architecture from day one has been focused on power consumption.”
Good news in the chip industry (KLIV Radio, 8/2/10) Jim Handy with Objective Analysis says the first half of 2010 saw a 50-percent growth from the first half of last year.
Memcon: ASML, vendors to blame for shortages (EE Times 7/29/10) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, sees the dreaded oversupply situation in the memory market “in mid-2011 or 2012” timeframe.
Dell Revamps Hardware Testing in Wake of Malware Issue (PC World, 7/22/10) Motherboards also could have solid-state drive units for data storage, said Jim Handy, director at Objective Analysis, a semiconductor research company.
Samsung, Toshiba Seek Big Increase in NAND Flash Speeds (PC World, 7/22/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said speedier interfaces for NAND chips are important because of their growing use for data processing…
Samsung and Toshiba to Develop a New Type of NAND Flash (Top Tech Reviews, 7/24/10) An analyst at the Objective Analysis – Jim Handy said that speedy interfaces for NAND chips are important because of their growing use for memory and data processing units.
SanDisk CEO Harari to retire (EE Times 7/22/10) “He's leaving at a high point,” added Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis.
Samsung, Toshiba Seek Big Increase in NAND Flash Speeds (PC World, 7/22/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said speedier interfaces for NAND chips are important because of their growing use for data processing, and not just music, photos, videos and USB drives.
Dell Revamps Hardware Testing in Wake of Malware Issue (PC World, 7/22/10) … instructions to start a system originate from a NOR flash chip, which would also imply that the malware is “pretty small,” said Jim Handy, director at Objective Analysis said.
Israeli Start-Up Claims Huge Boost to SSD Reliability (PC World, 7/12/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said it makes sense that Anobit's proprietary technology would be able to offer dramatically lower prices…
Kingston Suggests New SSDs for Old Desktops to Speed Up Performance (Desktop Review, 7/8/10) The cost per gigabyte on storage is about 20 times lower for HDDs, and that relationship will remain the same for the next 20 years, said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis
Will Spansion succeed or fail again? (EE Times, 6/23/10) “I am bullish on Spansion. They have dramatically reset their goals,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Anobit Claims Enterprise SSD Performance from MLC (Enterprise Storage Forum, 6/15/10) SSD analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told Enterprise Storage Forum that “it's a little hard to tell how much of a breakthrough this is…”
Virident ships SLC SSDs for PCIe (InfoStor, 6/15/10) Virident will compete most directly with Fusion-io, according to Jim Handy, an SSD analyst and director of Objective Analysis, a semiconductor market research firm.
Israeli start-up claims huge boost to SSD reliability (Computerworld, 6/15/10) Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, said it makes sense that Anobit's proprietary technology would be able to offer dramatically lower prices…
Samsung Factory Shows Surprising Logic (Wall Street Journal, 6/9/10) Jim Handy, who tracks the industry for the research firm Objective Analysis, says Samsung has realized that it can’t get to that position on memory alone. Tom Starnes, an Austin-based consultant who also collaborates with Handy at Objective Analysis, said Samsung should have no problem finding people to hire in view of layoffs at some other semiconductor companies in the city.
Grandis: STT-RAM to replace DRAM, flash (EE Times, 6/9/10) it's in fact tremendously difficult, a challenge that has prevented any of these technologies from reaching critical mass,’’ said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Seagate's Hybrid Drive Shoots for Quick-Draw Data Access (TechNewsWorld, 5/25/10) “SSDs’ extremely low acceptance can be traced back to their significant cost premium -- the cost/benefit ratio simply doesn't appeal to most consumers,” Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, told TechNewsWorld.
Violin 3000 series pushes SSD capacity pricing toward Fibre Channel SAN (SearchStorage.com, 5/25/10) “They started off with technology that was pretty pricey…" said Jim Handy, director at Los Gatos, CA-based market research firm Objective Analysis
V3 - It's All About the Analysts (Tekrati, 5/24/10) …some of the most famous and influential analysts in the world including: Rob Enderle who is the most quoted industry analyst in the world; Charles King who writes much of and facilitates the widely distributed and read Pund-IT, Roger Kay ranks as one of the most oft-quoted PC experts; semiconductor guru Jim Handy; and Altimeter Group which houses an exclusive club of top analysts such as Charlene Li, R “Ray” Wang, Jeremiah Owyang and Michael Gartenberg.
SSDs can improve battery life and provide rugged mass storage (Rapid, 5/24/10) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, says the devices are likely to prove very popular with those in industry as they can withstand heavy falls and other impacts.
Good Times: Micron Closes $1.2 Billion Deal (Boise Weekly, 5/11/10) Jim Handy, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based semiconductor industry analyst for the firm Objective Analysis, estimated that Numonyx could add up to $1.5 billion to Micron's revenue stream.
SSDs ‘a popular form of mass storage’ (Zyco, 5/25/10) Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analysis, said the technology has a number of benefits for construction and manufacturing workers.
Solid State Drives for Energy Savings (SNIA Europe Newsletter, Invited Article, 5/10/10) Once the data center manager incorporates SSD technology to complement existing storage tiering, two important side benefits of SSD storage become apparent:
PCIe and standard interface SSDs will live in perfect harmony (Fudzilla, 5/5/10) An analyst for Objective Analysis claims that PCIe and standard interface SSDs technology will work together for a long time. Many others claim that SSDs will replace PCIe as soon as the price drops but Jim Handy told Digitimes there is a lot of life in the old hard-drives yet.
For 2010, marketplace optimism abounds (Solid State Technology, 1/19/10) Jim Handy: “I am sure that the many hurting vendors and unemployed semiconductor professionals will join Objective Analysis in saying: ‘It’s about time!’”
Renesas tips MCU roadmap, but are rivals worried? (EE Times, 5/7/10) “I asked a couple of MCU competitors about the renewed Renesas and they were unconcerned,” said Tom Starnes, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Will the Feds Sour Apple's Juice? (Mac News World, 5/5/10) “Sometimes you deal with parts of the world where intellectual property rights are not held in as high esteem as here,” Tom Starnes, an industry analyst at Objective Analysis, told MacNewsWorld.
Analysts: Don't Expect Intel Inside Smartphones (PC Magazine, 5/5/10) … according to Tom Starnes, an analyst at Objective Analysis: “They just have not demonstrated a longevity in this space, and this is a critical part of this type of business.”
Objective Analysis: PCIe and standard interface SSDs should coexist for a very long time (DigiTimes, 5/5/10) Earlier this year, Computerworld Russia had a chance to ask Mr. Handy some questions about solid state drive (SSD) technology.
Memory Startup Gets Vote of Confidence from IBM (Wall Street Journal, 5/2/10) Others have been doing the same thing, including STEC and Fusion-io, but they sell complete SSDs that include internally designed controller chips, notes Jim Handy, an analyst at the market research firm Objective Analysis.
Enterprise SSDs to soar through 2015 (Computerworld, 4/30/10) According to Objective Analysis' 104-page report, there are 22 key enterprise applications for SSDs with varying uses.
Le recours aux SSD va grimper dans les entreprises d'ici 2015 (Le Monde Informatique, 4/30/10) Jim Handy, auteur de l'étude d'Objective Analysis, note de son côté que le recours aux SSD a déjà commencé à se développer dans les entreprises.
Numonyx announces phase-change memory for consumer devices (Computerworld, 4/21/10) “Serial interface is really the growing market for NOR,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis
Everspin rocks SRAM boat with 16-Mbit MRAM (EE Times, 4/19/10) “Everspin is taking a different approach than most alternative memory companies,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis
Solid State Drives for Energy Savings (SNIA Europe: Storage Networking Times, Invited Article, 4/15/10) Once the data center manager incorporates SSD technology to complement existing storage tiering, two important side benefits of SSD storage become apparent...
You Went to Jail ... but Howzabout Coming Back to Work for Us? (The Recorder, 4/13/10) “…there's a sense that these people have gone through the strangeness of American society…” said Jim Handy, a semiconductor analyst with Objective Analysis in Los Gatos
What's next for troubled Spansion? (EETimes, 4/5/10?) “When they come out of bankruptcy their creditors will all become shareholders of a private firm. This should happen soon,” said Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective-Analysis.
Toshiba, others invest $20M in flash memory array maker Violin (Computerworld, 4/2/10?) According to Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif., Toshiba's backing of Violin is key to the company's continued growth...
Vendors to revive stalled NAND projects (EE Times, 3/29/10?) “Prudent or not, it's a typical move during this kind of a time,” said Jim Handy, a NAND and solid-state drive analyst at research firm Objective Analysis.
Toshiba to go ahead with NAND flash fab (CIOL, 3/26/10) According to Jim Handy, a NAND and SSD analyst at the research firm Objective Analysis, prolonged periods of stable pricing always prompt vendors to add capacity…
Toshiba to add NAND fab in Japan (EE Times, 3/23/10) According to Jim Handy, a NAND and SSD analyst at research firm Objective Analysis, a NAND supply shortage that began last March is expected to keep pricing firm into 2011.
Capacitor-less below 1V operating ZRAM chips made using bulk silicon can replace DRAM (EE Herald, 3/22/10) “The DRAM market, the largest of the memory markets, is facing phenomenal challenges in migrating to future process nodes,” said Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis.
Phase Change Memory will Change Memory System Design (RTC Magazine, Invited Article, 3/22/10) This technology fits between today’s volatile and nonvolatile memory technologies
Innovative Silicon announces Z-RAM breakthroughs (The Inquirer, 3/17/10) This new technology could be just the shot in the arm that the memory market needs, according to Jim Handy of Objective Analysis.
Intel Bolsters Budget SSD Trend With 40 GB Drive (E-Commerce Times, 3/16/10) Consumers looking for a new computer have been trained to look for certain things when they are shopping, said Jim Handy, SSD analyst with Objective Analysis
The Future of Internal Hard Drives (Suite 101, 3/10/10) “Depending on performance, SSDs can range in cost from $3 to $20 per gigabyte, says Jim Handy, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based SSD analyst with Objective Analysis”
How to Use Flash-Based SSDs in Your Environment (TechTarget, 2/17/10) "They have to think of it like storage cache that's faster than hard disk storage but slower than DRAM," said Jim Handy, SSD analyst at Los Gatos, Calif.
How to use solid-state disk without crunching your controllers (Search Storage, 2/17/10) "They have to think of it like storage cache that's faster than hard disk storage but slower than DRAM," said Jim Handy, SSD analyst at market research firm Objective Analysis.
With SSDs, Multi-Level Cell Designs Might Be the Way to Go (ITBusinessEdge, 2/16/10) Objective Analysis' Jim Handy has a good run-down on the advantages of MLC this week on Infostor.
Micron to Acquire Numonyx (TweakTown, 2/10/10) Objective Analysis anticipates that this will be a good deal for both buyer and sellers.
SSD Maker Micron to Acquire Numonyx for $1.27B (eWeek, 2/10/10) "By acquiring Numonyx, Micron is buying the current leader in the NOR market, a position Numonyx is believed to have held for the past two quarters," flash industry analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis wrote in a news brief.
Micron challenges Samsung with $1.27 billion acquisition (Salt Lake Tribune, 2/10/10) Jim Handy, of Objective Analysis of Los Gatos, Calif., pointed out that Micron in the past has acquired companies at a low point in the market using depressed Micron stock.
Micron-Numonyx deal: What analysts are saying (EE Times, 2/10/10) Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis: ''Micron re-enters NOR. Micron itself participated in NOR starting in the late 1990s, but abandoned this effort in 2006.
Solid-state storage fixes data center bottlenecks -- for a price (Computerworld, 2/8/10) SSDs can range in cost from $3 to $20 per gigabyte, says Jim Handy, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based SSD analyst with Objective Analysis
Samsung moving ahead of schedule on $500M Austin project (Austin American-Statesman, 2/7/10?) But analyst Jim Handy, with Objective Analysis in San Jose, Calif., says there is another reason Samsung is pushing hard on the project
Does MLC flash belong in enterprise SSDs? (InfoStor, Invited Article, February 2010) There's a good bit of debate about whether or not enterprise-class solid-state disk (SSD) drives can use multi-level cell (MLC) flash technology, as opposed to single-level cell (SLC) technology, which is currently the dominant technology for enterprise SSDs.
Flying solo (The Daily Deal, 2/5/10) Samsung was in a high-stakes licensing contract negotiation with SanDisk when it began its six-month pursuit, and it was simply cheaper for it to buy the company than pay the royalties, says Jim Handy, an analyst at semiconductor market research firm Objective Analysis.
Intel tips NAND strategy, reveals a surprise (EE Times, 2/4/10) “Both also remarked that this was one further step that would help bring SSDs into the mainstream,'' said Handy of Objective Analysis.
Phase Change Memory: The Next Big Thing in Data Storage? (Enterprise Storage Forum, 2/3/10) PCM could be a strong alternative to flash, as it provides the same benefits as flash with faster speed, said Jim Handy, an SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, a semiconductor market research firm.
Flash capacity to double with 25 nm process (MyCE, 2/3/10) Objective Analysis estimates that the 25 nm flash chips will cost 50 cents per GB to manufacture, compared to $1.75 per GB for an industry standard 40 nm chip.
Analyst take: Inside Intel/Micron's 25nm NAND device (ElectroIQ, 2/2/10) Jim Handy from Objective Analysis does the math on the new chip…
Intel and Micron Introduce 25nm NAND, Gain Competitive Edge, Says Objective Analysis (Tekrati, 2/2/10) With a die size of 167mm² the device can fit into a standard TSOP package, according to semiconductor industry analyst Jim Handy at Objective Analysis.
Intel, Micron intro 25-nm NAND (EDN, 2/1/10) “At a die size of 167-mm-sq a 300-mm fab should be able to manufacture just over 400 die per wafer,” Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis, reported.
Intel and Micron get flash process lead (The Register, 2/1/10) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis reckons “a manufacturing cost of about $4.00 per chip, or $0.50/GB.”
New chip raises profile of Lehi memory chip manufacturer (Salt Lake Tribune, 2/1/10) Jim Handy, chief analyst at Objective Analysis of Los Gatos, Calif., said the biggest factor in the flash memory business is the cost of production of memory measured in gigabytes.
Micron and Intel to roll on 25 nano Flash chips (TechEye, 1/31/10) Objective Analysis in a note that said the chips cost of manufacturing will be around 50 cents a gigabyte, that compares to $1.75 a gigabyte for 45 nanometre memory.
Intel, Micron to Shrink NAND Flash to 25 nm (PC Magazine, 1/30/10) "Since the price of NAND flash has been hovering around $2.00/GB for the past year, and seems poised to continue at that price through 2010, the 25nm process will give the companies a significant margin boost over their current 34nm chip whose cost we estimate at $1.00/GB," Objective Analysis said.
Solid State Drives Get Faster with TRIM (Enterprise Storage Forum, 1/27/10) ... TRIM should be widely adopted in the very near future, said Jim Handy, an SSD analyst at Objective Analysis, a semiconductor market research firm.
How Soon Can The New Decade Start? (Electronic Design, Invited Article, 1/7/10) Right now it is particularly difficult to see the future. It’s 2010 and everybody is ready for a fresh start. Tom Starnes
Parques Solares de Navarra ofrece instalaciones a EEUU (Diario de Navarra, 1/3/10) Terry Peterson y Jim Handy, representantes de la entidad americana, visitaron el parque solar de Villafranca y mostraron su convencimiento de que la concentración es la tecnología de futuro en cuanto al sector fotovoltaico se refiere.
Rambus’ legal wranglings could lead to big payoff (San Jose Mercury News, 1/2/10) Without offering an opinion on Rambus' claims, Jim Handy, of the chip-market research firm Objective Analysis, said it's important for innovations to be fairly rewarded. Otherwise, he said, “that could pull the plug out of Silicon Valley.”
Seagate jumps into crowded flash drive market (EE Times, 12/8/09) "The company will be a force to contend with once it reaches its stride," said Jim Handy of Objective Analysis (Los Gatos, Calif.) in a written analysis.
Report: Apple accused of NAND price manipulation (C-Net, 12/1/09) The practice of not buying all of the product originally ordered, semiconductor analyst Jim Handy told CNET, is "not uncommon in the industry."
Solid State Drives Remove Trash (Enterprise IT Planet, 12/2/09) “SSDs suffer from a difficulty that doesn't exist in HDDs - the flash must be erased before new data can be written into it,” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a market research firm that predicts 148 percent unit growth for the enterprise SSD market.
Solid State Drives Take Out the Garbage (Enterprise Storage Forum, 12/1/09) “SSDs suffer from a difficulty that doesn't exist in HDDs …” said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis…
Google Chrome OS will not support hard-disk drives (Computerworld, 11/19/09) Jim Handy, an analyst with research firm Objective Analysis in Los Gatos, Calif., said if fast boot times were as important as Google is making them out to be, then Apple would own the PC market.
Micron Unveils New Enterprise Flash Technology (Enterprise Storage Forum, 10/20/09) SSD analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said the announcement “proves wrong all those people who think that high-endurance devices will never be supported by advancing lithographies.”
IBM adds flash to storage virtualization (Enterprise Storage Forum, 10/20/09) SSD analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis said the announcement “proves wrong all those people who think that high-endurance devices will never be supported by advancing lithographies.”
Focus On: SSDs and cloud storage (InfoStor, 10/13/09) The next debate may be where to put SSDs. That's what Objective Analysis' Jim Handy addresses in "Where do SSDs fit: Servers or arrays?"
Where do SSDs fit: Servers or arrays? (InfoStor, Invited Article, 10/13/09) Something of a religious war has popped up in the enterprise solid-state disk (SSD) drive space—where do SSDs belong: In the storage array or in the server as direct-attached storage?
Light innovators win Nobel (Web Telecoms, 10/8/09) The common wisdom is that NAND can't scale below 20 nanometers, according to Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analysis.
SanDisk Says New Chips Will Lower Production Costs (Wall Street Journal, 10/13/09) The flash-memory segment should rise nearly 31% to $18.4 billion after a 13% decline in 2008, predicts Jim Handy, an analyst at the market research firm Objective Analysis.
The Need for Speed: Sorting Out SSD Strengths & Weaknesses (SNIA Europe: Storage Networking Times, Invited Article, 10/13/09) SSDs are bursting onto the scene in many forms with a variety of features.
Samsung Sees Major Benefits From Phase-change Memory (PCWorld, 10/9/09) It could take many years to make its mark in mobile devices, said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis
Google: DRAM error rates vastly higher than previously thought (Computerworld 10/8/09) Hard errors are most often caused by chip contamination at the manufacturing facility, but they often don't show up in testing and only surface after the memory chip warms after hours of use, according to Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis.
Bell Microproducts Introduces SSD Seminar Series (Reuters, 10/7/09) The seminar series will feature industry expert Jim Handy, a principal with analyst firm Objective Analysis.
When will emerging memory arrive? (EDN, 10/5/09) According to Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analysis: “There are a lot of people focusing a lot of effort on whatever the next technology will be.”
Analysts: Micron may turn corner (Idaho Business Review, 10/4/09) Jim Handy, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based semiconductor industry analyst with Objective Analysis, agreed that Micron’s recent performance was “a really strong signal”…
ARM Techcon – Is Cloud Computing Just a Dream and Intel vs. ARM (GarySmithEDA.com blog, October 2009) Tom Starnes had an interesting panel at ARM Techcon this year. The topic of the panel was Cloud Computing but at the end the conversation turned into a look at the competitive battle between Intel and ARM.
SSD Makers Wrestle with Performance Degradation (Enterprise Storage Forum, 9/30/09) SSDs suffer from a difficulty that doesn't exist in HDDs — the flash must be erased before new data can be written into it, said Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a market research firm specializing in SSDs and semiconductors.
IBM Produces First Prototype of 32-nm Embedded SOI Chip (eWeek, 9/18/09) “This competes with SRAM on the chip, which accounts for about 50 percent of the die area of all high-performance processor chips,” Jim Handy of Objective Analysis told eWEEK.
Feels like SDRAM, but nonvolatile (Embedded Computing Design, 9/17/09) I like the comment Jim Handy of Objective Analysis made to describe the problem of large-scale memory in applications where power can be lost: “DRAM is volatile, flash is slow, SRAM with batteries is unreliable, and alternative technologies are too costly to use in large densities.”
Pliant Delivers (InfoStor, 9/14/09) According to Jim Handy, director of the Objective Analysis research and consulting firm (which specializes in the SSD market), one differentiator for Pliant is that its EFDs are based on the SAS interface, which is relatively rare in the SSD market.
Done Deals, and Those Not Taken (Semiconductor International, 4/27/09) But as Tom Starnes, an analyst who follows the MCU market at Objective Analysis, points out, bigger is not necessarily better.
Synapse Registers 500th SNAPs User (Wireless Business & Technology, 9/17/09) “You no longer have to be a network expert to make use of wireless technology, and can develop an application in a matter of days,” said Tom Starnes, Processor Analyst, Objective Analysis.
NAND Flash and PCs (EDN, 9/17/09) Recently, analyst Jim Handy released a report on Intel’s Braidwood, which is Intel’s 3rd generation Flash cache for PC architectures.
Cypress PSoC 5 With ARM Cortex-M3 (IQ OnLine, 9/15/09) “The PSoC is the only architecture that extends the concept of programmability beyond instructions for the processor to configuring peripherals and customization of digital functions,” said Tom Starnes, principal analyst at Objective Analysis in Austin, Texas.
Solid State of the union: Some SSD inaugurations (The Register, 9/2/09) Jim Handy of Objective Analysis also thinks that Intel's NAND-on-motherboard Braidwood technology could have a server implementation coming.
Pliant Hopes to Give STEC Some Competition (Enterprise Storage Forum, 9/15/09) … analyst Jim Handy of Objective Analysis noted, “I don't think anyone thought STEC would have the field all to themselves quite this long.”
Intel Braidwood is low-cost option for faster PCs (