{"id":40762,"date":"2026-06-04T00:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/40762\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T00:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:47:12","slug":"samsung-tops-global-nand-market-in-q1-following-d-ram-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/40762\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Tops Global NAND Market in Q1, Following D-RAM Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Global NAND flash market share by company. Source: Counterpoint Research - Seoul Economic Daily Finance News from South Korea\" title=\"Samsung Tops Global NAND Market in Q1, Following D-RAM Lead\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/news-p.v1.20260603.a622ffa50f494dd9a894f013d2164379_P1.png\"\/>Global NAND flash market share by company. Source: Counterpoint Research<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) retained its top position in the global NAND flash memory market in the first quarter, the company said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">According to market research firm Counterpoint Research on Tuesday, NAND market revenue in the first quarter rose 3.5-fold from a year earlier, driven by price increases stemming from a memory supply-demand imbalance. Revenue also grew 90% from the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Samsung Electronics took first place with a 29% market share. SK hynix (000660.KS) followed in second with 18%, while Kioxia ranked third with 14%. U.S.-based Micron came in fourth with a 13% share.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">The gap between Samsung Electronics and SK hynix widened. The 5-percentage-point difference between the two companies in the fourth quarter of last year expanded to 11 percentage points in the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Chinese competitors are also catching up at a faster pace. YMTC&#8217;s market share, which stood at around 8% a year ago, rose to 13% in the first quarter, narrowing the gap with SanDisk and Micron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">&#8220;If YMTC secures additional funding through an IPO, it could embark on full-scale production capacity expansion,&#8221; said Hwang Min-sung, research director at Counterpoint Research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Growing AI demand is also reshaping the NAND market&#8217;s product mix. Enterprise SSDs (eSSDs) for servers accounted for 43% of the total NAND market in the first quarter, and their share is expected to exceed 60% by year-end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Global NAND flash market share by company. Source: Counterpoint Research Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) retained its top position in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[11446,24653,9464,24652,1485,24651,127,276,275,10595],"class_list":["post-40762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-samsung-electronics","tag-counterpoint-research","tag-enterprise-ssd","tag-kioxia","tag-memory-chip-market-share","tag-micron","tag-nand-flash-market","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-sk-hynix","tag-ymtc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}