DRAMeXchange ranks NAND Flash vendors for Q210. Samsung wins, again.

Last month, DRAMeXchange published rankings for the top “branded” NAND Flash vendors. No surprise, Samsung remains in the lead, selling almost $2 billion worth of NAND Flash chips during the quarter in a market that DRAMeXchange estimates as a $4.776 billion market. With those sales, Samsung pushed its market share just above 40%. Toshiba was in second place with a bit more than $1.5 billion in sales, for a 33% share. So between the #1 and #2 players, we see almost three-quarters of the NAND Flash market. Micron’s third with about 12% followed by Hynix and Intel. The market grew nearly 10% from 1Q09 to 1Q10.

Three of the end products clearly driving this sales growth for NAND Flash are the rising popularity of smart phones; the smash success of pad-like tablets, namely Apple’s iPad since competitors are only just now starting to appear (but when they come fully on line, watch out); and the rise in ebook reader consumption mainly driven by Amazon’s Kindle. These three application-driven product categories ensure a healthy, growing market for NAND Flash.

You can see all of DRAMeXchange’s numbers for 2Q10 here.

Note: Here’s a very informative video teardown of a Kindle 3 reader from Australia’s EE phenom Dave Jones: