How to Use NAND in a Sentence

NAND

noun

• That’s not bad for many situations, and NAND is widely used in high-performance long-term storage, such as solid state drives.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 July 2026
• Analysts place the blame for this drop squarely on the increasing price of DRAM and NAND chips.
  — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 13 July 2026
• At the same time, everyday tech still needs regular DRAM and NAND storage.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2026
• In fact, Sankar’s research indicates that hard disk drives, or HDDs, are in shorter supply than NAND.
  — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 3 May 2026
• The ongoing memory shortage is driving up the costs of both RAM and NAND flash storage.
  — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 25 Mar. 2026
• Sandisk is a major maker of solid-state drives, which rely on what's known as NAND memory, a type of flash memory that stores data even when devices are turned off.
  — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 27 Apr. 2026
• Sandisk, a major provider of NAND flash memory, experienced a notable increase in its stock driven by strong trading volume.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• These include commodity products such as dynamic random-access memory and NAND flash.
  — Peter Cohan, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
• The analyst contends that there is more upside to pricing estimates, especially due to strength in NAND pricing, which is up 200% this year.
  — Tipranks.com Staff, CNBC, 3 May 2026
• The company also makes NAND flash, or hard drives, and is the market leader, with 19% share in the first quarter, according to IDC.
  — Kif Leswing,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 9 July 2026
• Other designs, such as the one for the NAND gate at right, will function properly regardless of imperfections in the arrangement of the underlying carbon nanotubes.
  — Max Shulaker, IEEE Spectrum, 30 June 2016
• Sure, that has sent a lot of tech money to chase the shortage trade, NAND flash memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory), and the like, and that hasn't stopped.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 18 Jan. 2026
• The skyrocketing price of DRAM and NAND may be what finally breaks the streak despite strong Galaxy S26 sales.
  — ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2026
• Counterpoint Research warned last month that the rising prices for DRAM and NAND flash are not only affecting smartphones, but also routers and gateways.
  — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 19 Mar. 2026
• As the global memory shortage continues, Corsair memory may be trialing a new source for its NAND Flash chips, VideoCardz reports.
  — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 22 May 2026
• SanDisk projects that by 2026, data centers will surpass mobile devices to become the largest source of demand for NAND flash, a shift that could fundamentally reshape the market.
  — CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
• Samsung is currently the world’s largest DRAM and NAND memory company, with SK Hynix close behind it in both markets.
  — Stevie Bonifield, The Verge, 24 Apr. 2026
• The types of memory most needed for AI processing include the eponymous DRAM and the slightly slower NAND flash memories.
  — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 12 May 2026
• Smartphone and tablet makers face rising contract prices for DRAM and NAND, which are pushing some to trim default storage tiers or hold back on RAM bumps in lower‑end models.
  — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• Mizuho singled out Micron last week with a similar rationale, arguing that pricing power delta on DRAM and NAND memory would climb well into the triple digits.
  — Tobias Burns, CNBC, 11 May 2026
• That polarization stores data differently from conventional NAND — and that difference matters under radiation.
  — Deena Theresa, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026
• The Neo’s $599 starting price has also garnered much praise at a time when ongoing DRAM and NAND shortages have caused many PC prices to skyrocket.
  — Marco Chiappetta, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• Lam Research noted in its earnings call that NAND demand is growing faster than previously expected, driven by emerging use cases for high-capacity SSDs.
  — Sasirekha Subramanian, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Micron, one of the world's leading suppliers of DRAM and NAND flash memory chips, exceeded estimates on top and bottom lines and gave a strong forecast for the current quarterly period.
  — Sean Conlon,pia Singh, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2025
• Excessive temperatures can damage the NAND memory chips used in an SSD so having efficient passive cooling is essential for reliable performance.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
• Analysts predict that with SanDisk raising NAND flash prices while AI continues to consume much of the industry's capacity, consumer electronics may soon face a new wave of price increases.
  — CNBC, 10 Nov. 2025
• Cloud giants and hyperscalers have been pulling in orders since late 2025, pre‑booking huge chunks of DRAM and NAND bit growth for AI training clusters and memory‑heavy inference nodes.
  — Tim Bajarin, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• To meet these needs, consumer devices tend to rely on systems-on-a-chip – chips that combine processing and storage – with dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, and NAND, a type of nonvolatile memory.
  — Vidya Mani, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
• And as Micron shifts production to HBM memory instead of the less lucrative DRAM and NAND memory used in PCs and smartphones, prices are rising all around.
  — Alexei Oreskovic, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
• Morgan Stanley estimates Apple's average dynamic random access memory cost per bit could rise roughly 190% year over year in fiscal 2027, with NAND costs up about 180%.
  — Mackenzie Sigalos, CNBC, 14 July 2026