Traditional PCs will account for only 22 percent of DRAM consumption by 2017, says IHS

According to a DRAM Dynamics Brief report, information and analytics provider IHS has revealed that in 2015, the mobile devices will use $11.6 billion worth of dynamic random access memory (DRAM).

However, the newest findings from IHS show that PCs will lose that distinction in 2015. Furthermore, their share of total DRAM sales will fall to 30 percent in 2014, to 28 percent in 2015 and 23 percent in 2016, down from 38 percent in 2013.

Dale Ford, Senior Director at IHS said, The fortunes of the PC and DRAM industries have been intricately intertwined for 30 years now. DRAM makers have centered their technology, capacity and product strategies on the needs of their PC customers. At the same time, the performance of the DRAM business has been dependent on upturns and downturns in the PC market. But with the decline of the PC market and rise of wireless platforms, this alignment is coming to an end.

He added, The post-PC era is already a reality in the electronics supply chain. PCs are no longer driving the action in the global electronics supply chain—a development that has tremendous implications for the future of the high-tech industry.

Furthermore, the study found that ,buyers of PC tablets will use them to replace traditional clamshell-type notebooks, not media tablets. This means that PC tablets will not help PC makers reclaim market share lost to media tablets.