Mobile to be biggest consumer of DRAM, says IC Insights

This year, for the first time ever, mobile applications will use more DRAM than computers, reports IC Insights.

“In 2014 mobile systems are forecast to become the largest application for DRAM bit volume, surpassing the desktop/notebook segment, which has long been the essential driver for DRAM bit consumption,” says IC Insights.

The slowdown in PC shipments has considerably affected where DRAM bit volume is being consumed.

The desktop/notebook computer segment represented less than half of total DRAM bit volume for the first time in 2012 and its share is forecast to fall to 31% in 2014 — half its market share from 2010.

DRAM bit growth, which averaged 83% annually between 1995 and 1999, has been running at 36% annually since 2010.

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