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Top suppliers see big gains Macronix Ranked second with $942 million
in small NOR flash market and captured 33% NOR marketshare. NOR
represented 52% of Macronix’s total IC
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — Strong unit sales in 2021.
demand and robust ASP gains lifted
total NOR flash market 63% in 2021, Transition to 45nm process
according to IC Insights. Essentially all of its NOR devices were
produced using 75nm and 55nm process
Sales soared to $2.9 billion technology last year but in 2Q22, the com-
While NOR flash memory represented only pany began its transition to 45nm NOR
4% of the total flash memory market in flash production. Communications, auto-
2021, sales of NOR flash devices soared motive, and industrial/medical applications
last year to $2.9 billion, according to data were the big growth drivers for Macronix’s
released in IC Insights’ 2Q Update to The NOR flash business in 2021.
McClean Report 2022.
Third-ranked GigaDevice doubled its NOR
NOR unit shipments increased 33%
last year while the average selling price flash sales in 2021 and expects another
jumped 23%. The 2Q Update also fore- solid year for its NOR flash sales in 2022.
casts the NOR flash market will rise anoth- Demand for its NOR flash last year was
er 21% to $3.5 billion in 2022. mostly from automotive applications.
3 sellers account for 91% of market While NOR flash is not a serious contender
Three companies accounted for 91% of for most new, high-capacity storage ap-
NOR flash memory sales in 2021. plications, it remains a useful and reliable
memory option for code storage and in
Winbond was the largest NOR flash sup- many low-end embedded applications.
plier with sales that topped $1.0 billion,
which amounted to 35% of NOR market- Automotive key component
share. In the automotive space, for example,
NOR is a key component in
dashboard instrument clus-
ters, infotainment systems,
and advanced driver assis-
tance systems (ADAS).
In the industrial segment,
NOR flash memory is used to
provide consistent and se-
cure access to code data and
medical records of patients.
Since 2011, Winbond manufactured most
of its NOR products using 58nm technolo- NOR flash is also part of the market for In-
gy, but in 2021, the company transitioned ternet of Things (IoT) applications, includ-
to its 40nm-based process for most of its
NOR products. ing many new healthcare products that
provide remote diagnosis and monitoring.
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