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2026 NAND Flash: AI drives explosive enterprise SSD demand, offsetting weak consumer markets. HDD shortages compel a shift to high-capacity QLC SSDs. Despite bit growth, supply for these remains structurally tight, ensuring sustained price increases and a significant market pivot.
TrendForce forecasts a structural memory price hike by 2026. Strong AI server demand and profit-first supplier strategies lead to capacity shifting towards high-margin applications, driving widespread DRAM and NAND Flash price increases, despite weak consumer demand.
The NAND Flash market is robust, driven by enterprise SSD and AI demand, pushing up contract and spot prices. Micron, leveraging QLC technology and data center SSDs, has successfully transformed and anticipates continued revenue and margin growth.
Strong Enterprise SSD demand and tight supply drove NAND Flash wafer prices up in September. Manufacturers prioritized high-margin products amid process conversion, tightening supply. A structural market upturn, not just seasonal, is anticipated for months ahead.
September SLC/MLC NAND Flash prices surged, fueled by robust niche demand, strategic supply contraction, and capacity shift to high-margin products. October anticipates further gains and tighter supply.
TrendForce combines its expertise in memory market and leverage it to provide a multi-faceted study of server market in this report. The content of it is as follows:
1. Server CPU Market: State of Competition and Market Shares
2. Server Procurement by Cloud Service Providers in North America and China
3. Projection on Shipments of Server Storage Products
4. Projection on Server Shipments for Current Year
5. Major ODM Partners of Critical Server Brands
6. Changes on Volumes in Server DRAM Procurement
7. Trends in SSD Procurement and Projections on Storage Form-Factors and Interfaces
8. Shares of Enterprise and Hyperscaler Servers in Memory Consumption.
AI demand boosts storage; HDD scarcity shifts orders to enterprise SSDs, strengthening NAND Flash market sentiment. Supplier inventories are healthy, projecting widespread 4Q25 contract and spot price hikes.
AI's surge is transforming data center storage. HDD faces high costs and long lead times due to new tech hurdles, creating a significant supply gap. This opens a key opportunity for QLC Nearline SSDs. NAND suppliers are accelerating advanced process transitions to dominate the AI-driven high-capacity storage market, positioning Nearline SSDs as the future mainstream.
4Q25 memory prices continue upward. Strong AI demand from US CSPs and HDD shortages boosting enterprise NAND Flash are key. Suppliers prioritize profit, tightening old process supply.
TrendForce notes surging AI inference drives high-capacity storage demand. HDD shortage pushes CSPs to Nearline SSDs. NAND Flash vendors accelerate QLC validation & expansion. Future sees wider SSD adoption in AI, boosting enterprise SSD demand. NAND Flash expands to AI training, diversifying tech. Supply chain faces bottlenecks, requiring expansion & innovation.
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