Emerging Personal Data Ecosystem & Demand for Personal Data Empowerment Tools Drive the SD Memory Cards Market
Emerging
personal data ecosystem and the ensuing demand for personal data storage
empowerment tools is poised to drive the global market for Secure
Digital (SD) Memory Cards to reach US$13.2 billion by 2024. Secure Digital (SD) memory
card, conceptualized by SD Card Association (SDA), is a non-volatile memory
card the design and fabrication of which is focused on addressing the space,
capacity, security, and performance needs of modern portable electronic
devices. Available in standard SD, microSD and miniSD formats, differentiated
by size dimensions and storage capacity, SD memory offers several key benefits
in media storage such as small footprint, high-performance, ease-of-use and
durability. Although digital camera represents the traditional application area
for SD memory, current spate of growth is being driven by smartphones and tablet
devices. Exponential rise in 4G LTE networks and subsequent expansion in
digital media consumption and social networking on mobile devices is steering
demand for SD memory within the smartphones vertical.
Future
prospects remain highly favourable for SD memory cards market. While steady
momentum in the smartphones and tablets sales is poised to keep the sentiment
intact in the market, ongoing thrust on IoT/M2M communication in consumer and
commercial applications is expected to steer the market momentum in a major
way. Market stands to gain from the recently launched SD version 7.0, which emphasizes
the novel SD Express and SDUC features to support data transfer speeds of up to
985 MB/s and 128TB maximum storage
capacity.
The new SD 7.0 devices would especially aid market growth in next-generation
application domains including data-intense wireless communication, 8K video,
drones and multi-channel IoT devices etc.
Although
the prospects for SD memory remain positive, the market continues to reel under
pressure due to various issues and challenges hampering the momentum. Launch of
new smartphone models with large in-built memory and without external memory
card slot, growing popularity of personal cloud storage, and ongoing
proliferation of competing memory technologies such as eMMC are some of the key
issues niggling the market prospects for SD memory, worldwide.
Major players in the
market include ADATA Technology Co. Ltd., Apacer Technology Inc., Delkin
Devices Inc., Duracell Inc., Edge Memory, EP Holdings Inc., Eye-Fi Inc.,
Integral Memory plc, KINGMAX Technology Inc., Kingston Technology Company Inc.,
Kobian Pte Ltd., Lexar, MagicRAM Inc., Micron Technology Inc., Panasonic
Corporation, PNY Technologies Inc., Power Quotient International Co. Ltd.,
Samsung Electronics, SanDisk Corporation, Sony Corporation, Toshiba
Corporation, Transcend Information Inc., and Verbatim Americas LLC, among others.
The research report titled ”Secure Digital (SD) Memory
Cards: A Global Strategic Business Report” announced
by Global Industry Analysts Inc.,
provides a comprehensive review of market trends, growth drivers, product
innovations and strategic industry activities of major companies worldwide. The
report provides market estimates and projections for sales of Secure Digital
(SD) Memory Cards in US$ for all major geographic markets- US, Canada, Japan, Europe (France, Germany, Italy, UK, Spain, Russia, and
Rest of Europe), Asia-Pacific (China, India, and Rest of Asia-Pacific), Latin
America (Brazil, and Rest of Latin America), and Rest of World. The global
market for Secure Digital (SD) Memory Cards is also analyzed by the
applications – Communication Devices, Digital Cameras, and Others (Includes
PDAs; GPS; and Gaming, Music & Video Devices).
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