Who are the top 10 most important SSD manufacturers - the companies which you absolutely have to look at if you’ve got got any new projects involving SSDs?
A decade ago there was an easy answer. “All of them!”
It wasn’t till 1999 that our online SSD directory tipped over the 10 companies mark.
Today (October 2008) there are over 86 active listed SSD oems. Another 4 or so I know in stealth mode, another 10 I’m checking out as imminent maybes and I expect the total number of SSD oems to go north of 100 in 2008. The new storage gold rush is chasing an opportunity for storage systems companies that could eventually be worth 5 to 10 billion dollars a year.