24 Facts About Kingston Technology

Kingston Technology Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells and supports flash memory products, other computer-related memory products, as well as the HyperX gaming division.

Kingston Technology has manufacturing and logistics facilities in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Taiwan, and China.

Kingston Technology provides contract manufacturing and supply chain management services for semiconductor manufacturers and system OEMs.

Kingston Technology was founded on October 17, 1987, in response to a severe shortage of 1Mbit surface-mount memory chips, Chinese immigrant John Tu designed a new single in-line memory module that used readily available, older-technology through-hole components.

Kingston Technology expanded into networking and storage product lines, and introduced DataTraveler and DataPak portable products.

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In September 1994, Kingston Technology became ISO 9000 certified on its first assessment attempt.

In 1995, Kingston Technology opened a branch office in Munich, Germany to provide technical support and marketing capabilities for its European distributors and customers.

In 1996, Kingston Technology opened its European headquarters in London, United Kingdom.

Kingston Technology expanded its American manufacturing capacity by purchasing PC-OEM manufacturing buildings in Fountain Valley, California.

Kingston Technology introduced ValueRAM, which was a high-quality, low-cost memory designed for system integrators to use in white box systems.

In 1999, Kingston Technology launched Advanced Validation Labs, Inc, a sister company that provides memory validation services.

Kingston Technology began manufacturing removable disk drive storage products in 1989 in their Kingston Technology Storage Products Division.

In June 2000, Kingston Technology announced a new supply chain management model to its memory manufacturing process.

Payton Kingston Technology Inc was established to help support this new model.

In March 2001, Kingston Technology announced the formation of the Consumer Markets Division, a new division focusing on the retail and e-tail channel.

In 2002 Kingston launched a patented memory tester and a new HyperX line of high-performance memory modules, and patented EPOC chip-stacking technology.

Kingston Technology was later granted a U S patent on dynamic burn-in tester for server memory.

Kingston Technology launched Fully Buffered Dimms, which broke the 16GB barrier.

In 2014, Kingston Technology HyperX released the FURY memory line for entry-level overclocking and game enthusiasts.

In 2016, Kingston Digital, the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, acquired the USB technology and assets of IronKey from Imation Corp.

Kingston Technology sold HyperX to HP Inc in February 2021 for $425 millio The deal only includes computer peripherals branded as HyperX, not memory or storage.

Kingston Technology retains ownership of the memory and storage products, which it has rebranded as Kingston Technology FURY.

In September 2006, Kingston Technology received Intel's "Outstanding Supplier Award for Exceptional Support, Quality and Timely Delivery of FB-DIMM Products".

Kingston Technology appeared on Fortunes list of "100 Best Companies to Work For" for five consecutive years.