Kingston, founded in 1987, is the leading brand of storage products in the world. Kingston currently has more than 2,000 kinds of storage products, supporting almost all devices that use storage products, such as personal computers, servers, printers, MP3 players, digital cameras and mobile phones. In 2009, the revenue of Kingston Company was as high as 4 1 billion USD.
Including its global headquarters in Fangquan Valley, California, USA, Kingston has more than 4,000 employees around the world, and was selected as "the most worthwhile company to work for" by Fortune magazine. Its work mode of respect, loyalty, flexibility, honesty and happiness has become Kingston's unique corporate culture. Kingston believes that people are the most important assets of an enterprise, and every employee is an important factor for the success of the enterprise and an indispensable member of the Kingston family.
Kingston's operating system covers five continents, including agents, distributors, retailers and OEM customers. Meanwhile, Kingston also provides OEM and supply chain management services for semiconductor manufacturers and system OEMs.
Standing at the forefront of storage technology: Kingston's history
Kingston technology originated from the high-tech market where there was an extreme shortage of surface packaged memory chips in the1980s. Kingston's founders Du Jichuan and Sun Dawei are determined to find a solution to this problem. Finally, they designed and produced a new plug-in packaging technology-Independent Memory Module Tape (SIMM). So in June 1987 10 17, Kingston Technology was established and a new industry standard was born.
1989
Kingston Technology is different from other competitors in testing and quality assurance with 100%, and is in a leading position in the industry and storage market.
1990
Kingston began to produce its first non-memory product line, processor upgrade.
1992
Kingston was rated as the fastest growing private enterprise in the United States by Inc. magazine.
1993
Kingston further expands its network and storage product line.
1994
Kingston launched DataTraveler and DataPak mobile products.
In September, Kingston passed ISO 9000 certification. In Forbes magazine's "Top 500 Enterprises in America", Kingston ranks 367th with an annual income of 489 million dollars.
1995
Kingston set up a branch in Munich, Germany to provide technical support and marketing assistance to European distributors and customers.
On June 5438+ 10, Kingston successfully entered the "Billion Dollar Club", and the company's sales in June 5438+0995 exceeded $1300 million.
The company printed each employee's name on The Wall Street Journal, The Orange County Chronicle and The Los Angeles Daily to thank each employee for their efforts. At the same time, we also express our heartfelt thanks to our suppliers and agents through many commercial publications and The Wall Street Journal.
1996
15 In August, Japan Software Bank acquired 80% of Kingston's shares for1500 million US dollars.
165438+ 10 In October, Kingston cooperated with Toshiba to upgrade the memory of Toshiba's PC. This is the first cooperation between PC OEM and memory manufacturer.
65438+February 65438+April 4, Du Jichuan and Sun Dawei gave out a bonus of $65438 billion to employees to thank and reward them for their contributions to Kingston.
Kingston announced that the sales of the company's memory module products in 1996 increased by 49% compared with 1995.
1997
In June+10, 5438, Kingston established its European headquarters in Britain.
Kingston has set up factories and offices in Taiwan Province Province.
Kingston has set up a branch in Japan.
In August, Kingston set up a production base and office in Dublin, Ireland.
1998
Kingston was named the second best working environment in America by Fortune magazine.
Kingston acquired PC-OEM's factory in Fountain Valley, California to expand its production capacity.
In February this year, Kingston's quality management system passed the evaluation and registration, which met the quality standards of ISO 9001/ANSI/ASQC Q9001and SGS international certification service requirements.
1999
In July, Du Jichuan and Sun Dawei repurchased 80% of Kingston's equity held by Software Bank for US$ 450 million.
Kingston began to produce high-performance, low-cost ValueRAM memory products, which are specially designed for system integrators using white card solutions.
In September, Kingston's factory in Penang, Malaysia was established.
In 2000,
Kingston established Advanced Verification Laboratory Company (AVL) as a sister company providing memory authentication services.
Kingston independent its storage product packaging department into a new company -Storcase Technology, Inc.
In June, Kingston began to adopt the latest supply chain management model in the memory manufacturing process. The establishment of Peyton Technology Company provides the strongest support for this new model.
In the same year, Kingston was ranked in Forbes magazine's "Top 500 American Enterprises" 14 1 with the revenue of1500 million dollars.
200 1 year
Set up Kingston Asia-Pacific business headquarters in Taiwan Province Province. This new department focuses on sales and marketing, supporting retailers and e-commerce channel partners, which complements Kingston's core competence.
Kingston was selected as "the top five manufacturing enterprises in the world" by Industry Weekly.
In 2002
From June+10, 5438, Kingston was named as one of the "Best Companies to Work for 100" by Fortune magazine for five consecutive years.
In July, Kingston introduced a patent to lead the memory tester in the same industry.
165438+ 10, Kingston launched the latest high-performance HyperX memory module product line.
Kingston released the patented CSP overhead packaging technology (EPOC) for memory modules.
In 2003
In April, Kingston was awarded the "Best Integrated Supplier Overall Performance Award" by Dell.
In June, Kingston was awarded the honorary award of "fairness and justice" by the "Outstanding Workplace" judging association.
In August, Kingston received an investment of $50 million from Elpida.
10, Kingston imported "green" memory chips.
In 2004
Kingston announced that its revenue in 2003 exceeded $6,543.8+0.8 billion.
ISuppli rated Kingston as the world's largest independent memory module manufacturer in the third-party memory market.
In August, Kingston extended the warranty period of flash memory card to "lifetime warranty".
In September, Kingston launched the latest DataTraveler Elite USB flash drive, which added hardware encryption function.
On June+10, 5438, AMD awarded Kingston "Outstanding Partner" in recognition of Kingston's contribution to the listing of AMD Athlon 64 and Snapdragon.
In 2005
Kingston announced that its revenue in 2004 exceeded $2.4 billion.
ISuppli ranked Kingston as the world's largest independent memory module manufacturer in the third-party memory market for the second year in a row.
In May, Kingston launched the ValueRAM memory product line approved by Intel for Intel servers.
In July, Kingston obtained an American patent for the dynamic aging test equipment of server memory.
Kingston announced that it will invest $26 million in Tera Probe, the world's largest and newest wafer testing company.
In September, Kingston set up the world's largest memory module factory in China.
In 2006
Kingston Company announced that its revenue in 2005 exceeded $3 billion.
ISuppli ranked Kingston as the world's largest independent memory module manufacturer in the third-party memory market for the third consecutive year.
In March, Kingston introduced a USB flash drive with 100% security features and 128-bit hardware encryption technology.
In April, Kingston released fully buffered DIMM(f b-DIMM) memory that broke through the bottleneck of 16GB.
In August, Kingston launched KPEX (Kingston Portable Multimedia Player) and entered the mobile multimedia market.
In September, Kingston was awarded "Outstanding Supplier" by Intel in recognition of Kingston's outstanding performance in technical support, product quality and timely launch of FB-DIMM products.
In 2007
Kingston announced that its revenue in 2006 was $3.7 billion.
June 5, 2007 to1October 5, 2007: Two founders of Kingston Technology were awarded the Goldhirsh Award for Outstanding Alumni by Inc. magazine.
Kingston has been selected as the world's largest manufacturer of memory modules by iSuppli for four consecutive years.
10: Kingston celebrates its 20 years in the memory industry.
Kingston ranked 83rd in Forbes magazine's "Top 500 Individual Enterprises in America". Inc. chose Kingston as the individual enterprise with the highest income growth rate.
the year of 2008
Kingston announced that its revenue in 2007 was $4.5 billion, the highest in 20 years.
Kingston was selected by iSuppli as the world's largest manufacturer of memory modules for five consecutive years.
In August of the same year, in terms of revenue growth and total revenue, Kingston was selected as the second among the "Top 5000 Companies of Inc. 100" by Inc.com.
165438+ 10 In October, Kingston was selected as the 79th of Forbes magazine's "Top 500 Individual Enterprises in America".
In 2009
Kingston announced that its revenue in 2008 was $4 billion, the third highest revenue record since its establishment. Since 2007, the shipment of memory products has increased by 4 1%.
Kingston was selected by iSuppli as the world's largest manufacturer of memory modules for six consecutive years.
In August, according to the income, Kingston was selected as the fifth of "Top 5000 Enterprises/Top 0/00 of KLOC" by Inc.com.
In June+10, 5438, Kingston was selected as the 97th in Forbes magazine's "Top 500 Individual Enterprises in America" and the 1 bit in computer hardware category.
20 10 year
Kingston announced that its revenue in 2009 was US$ 46,543.8 billion, the second highest revenue record since its establishment, and was selected by iSuppli as the world's largest manufacturer of memory modules with a market share of 38.3% (in the first half of 2009). The market share in 2008 and 2007 was 32.8% and 27.5% respectively.
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About Kingston red head sign
1987— Kingston was founded before the red-headed logo was designed.
1989— The advertising company launched a creative advertisement "Improve your memory", with the slogan "Two hands are adding memory to an incomplete brain".
1990- The first Kingston logo is available. Inspired by advertisements, it is characterized by "a series of pictures of memory modules are entering an open brain".
1992— The painter Fraser was ordered to create a simpler, more powerful portrait that fully embodies science and technology. He has put forward three or four design schemes, one of which "a single three-dimensional avatar surrounded by computer equipment" was selected as the company's Logo.
1993 Up to now-the forehead of human head has been modified, and the surrounding computer equipment has also been deleted. In the end, there was only a single Kingston red head, and everyone called it "Rex". This last modified image has not changed for many years. People all over the world can also recognize this symbol as a symbol of the world's independent memory leaders.