"Transfer of data between different memorytypes has improved significantly in recent times, and will be further helped by the standards for hard drives which are currently being developed by the major manufacturers, " said Mr Larsson.
Micron develops different types of DRAM including mobile DRAM products that are specialty DRAM memory devices designed for applications demanding minimal power consumption such as smartphones and tablets.
Although there are some markets where flash memory is having an impact on hard disk drives, in many other cases there is a synergy in having both types of storage as part of storage architecture.