In-Depth Reports – Objective Analysis

OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS provides thorough in-depth reports on matters important to the semiconductor market. These reports can be purchased online for immediate download. Click the link below for the report you would like to review or purchase, or visit our Purchase Reports page.

The following list gives some of our more recent offerings.

CXL MARKET NOW TAKING SHAPE

Now Available
CXL, or Compute Express Link, or CXL, is now gaining important traction in hyperscale computing systems, and is becoming an important part of the DRAM market. This 57-page report exhaustively examines CXL technology and its business model to give an inside view of how the technology will grow, and what must be done to foster this growth. Objective Analysis’ CXL report is the foundation for your most successful CXL strategy.
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WILL HBM RESCUE THE DRAM MARKET?

Coming September 2026
Today’s fascination with AI has propelled High Bandwidth Memory, HBM, into a role of critical importance. HBM vendor production capacity is fully booked. How long will this last? This Objective Analysis in-depth report will thoroughly explore HBM technology, the market opportunity, and where the business is ultimately headed, concluding with discussions of HBM’s impact on key market segments. This HBM report will provide the key components for building your company’s successful HBM strategy.
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NEW MEMORIES—Not Just for AI

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New memory technologies are now actively replacing established memory types in SoCs (systems on chips) and as stand-alone memory chips, both in AI and in more conventional digital systems. MRAM, ReRAM, FRAM, PCM, and other new memory technologies are replacing SRAM, NOR flash, and even DRAM. This 300-page report provides the reader with a solid understanding of why, how, and when these technologies will displace older memory types, and details how their growth will impact both the semiconductor and the capital equipment markets. Make this report the foundation for your successful New Memory strategy.
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THE MICRON/INTEL 3D XPOINT MEMORY, 2019 UPDATE

July 2019
This report is an in-depth evaluation of Intel’s and Micron’s 3D XPoint memory and Intel’s Optane support products. This Objective Analysis report explains why and how crosspoint memories work and the manufacturing challenges they present, while examining the market and its impact on the computing and competitive landscapes.
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CHINA’S MEMORY AMBITIONS

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China has left no doubt that it will play an important role in tomorrow’s memory chip market. This report compares this new campaign to similar ones performed in the past both in China and in other regions and explains the impact it is likely to have on memory chip markets and on semiconductors as a whole.
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PROFITING FROM THE NVDIMM MARKET

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What are NVDIMMs and why are they suddenly attracting so much attention? This report tells how and why this new technology has garnered so much attention, and predicts how they will grow in computing systems, and what their impact will be on the DRAM, NAND flash, and SSD markets.
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THE ENTERPRISE SSD: TECHNOLOGIES & MARKETS

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This 2017 update to the acclaimed Objective Analysis enterprise SSD report gives an in-depth look at the reason for SSDs’ outstanding success in this market and predicts further developments. This highly-expanded 108-page report adds considerable depth to the market analysis and refines the established enterprise SSD forecast methodology, based on 23 end markets, with a breakdown by interface.
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HOW MANY IOPS DO YOU REALLY NEED?

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This report is an update of the groundbreaking Objective Analysis/Coughlin Associates IT Manager Survey, conducted over the past several months, that determines the IOPS, latency, and capacity requirements for various applications. User inputs are amplified by collateral information that correlates IOPS requirements with key enterprise SSD markets.
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HOW PC NAND WILL UNDERMINE DRAM

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DRAM growth has been driven by PC sales since the early 1980s, but that is about to end. Benchmarks prove that NAND flash yields more speed per dollar than DRAM. This study explains how NAND will displace DRAM in PCs, leading to a steady decline in DRAM revenues for the foreseeable future.
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ARE HYBRID DRIVES FINALLY COMING OF AGE?

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After several false starts hybrid HDDs are poised to break into the PC market, along with other technologies that insert NAND between HDDs and DRAM. This study explains these technologies, their potential market, and how the NAND, PC, SSD, and HDD markets will be impacted.
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PUTTING SSDS TO THE TEST

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How do you choose an SSD? This groundbreaking study cuts through the confusion by profiling 17 SSDs and one enterprise HDD. Test results show differences between SSDs to help SSD users to determine which SSD is the best fit for a given workload.
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SOLID STATE DISK MARKET OUTLOOK

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This report takes an exhaustive look at the Solid-State Disk (SSD) markets for notebook & desktop PCs, the enterprise, and other applications with technical information, market dynamics, a forecast, and a competitive analysis of 28 noteworthy SSD makers. Read this to understand users’ wants and needs, the competitive landscape, and market drivers.
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UNDERSTANDING THE NAND MARKET

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NAND flash in its short life has gone from insignificant sales to become a $16 billion market in under ten years. This product, the fastest-growing technology in the history of the semiconductor market, is poised to displace DRAM as the leading semiconductor memory. Our study examines NAND as a market, and explains how and why this technology has been able to grow so fast, and what is likely to come over the next five years.
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