14 DAY TRIAL // Reports and rumors always emerge in regards to the probable marketing performance of a company or product, and it looks like Samsung is one of the latest to come under this type of scrutiny.
Samsung may be seeing great results form its tablet initiative, but its other business outlets don't seem to be doing as well.
For those that want an update or reminder, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 went on sale just a short while ago and, in at least one country, sold out just hours after it was first made available.
Unfortunately, the outfit can't claim to have as high a level of success with its other endeavors, such as the NAND segment and the LCD market.
Going by what recent reports have been saying, the company won't see the spike in demand it expected for these two fields.
LCDs, for instance, have been benefiting from the good sales on the smartphone market, but TVs have more than outweighed that positive evolution.
One of the cause is the work of new factories based in China, which are at least partially responsible for the high supply.
Meanwhile, the NAND Flash memory segment has been dealing with oversupply as well, even though companies have already reduced chip selling prices.
Of course, as far as users go, this is actually a fortuitous development since, though not good for the companies that maker them, lower component prices mean cheaper storage and display products, something that customers tend not to frown upon.
All in all, compared to the start of the year, overall demand should end up staying flat.
On the flip side, one could say that this turn of events is not as critical as what has been happening on the DRAM market.
For those that do not yet know, DRAMs have been getting cheaper for such a long time, and reached such lows, that their makers decided to just stop letting the prices drop any further, weak demand or no.