Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory
Privately owned | |
Industry | Technology |
Founded | 1997 |
Headquarters | Rancho Santa Margarita, USA |
Key people | Phu Hoang, CEO; Chinh Nguyen, CTO Thomas Magee, CFO |
Products | Flash storage and DRAM memory modules |
Number of employees | between 51 and 200 |
Website | www.virtium.com |
Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory (commonly referred to as Virtium -- Latin for integrity—and formerly known as Virtium Technology) is a privately held American maker of semiconductor memory and solid-state-storage products for industrial designs and embedded systems.[1] Virtium was co-founded in 1997 by Phu Hoang, a refugee from Vietnam. (Hoang lived on a boat for years before immigrating to North America, learning English in a refugee camp, then founding Virtium.)
Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, USA, and with operations elsewhere in North America, Europe and Asia, Virtium designs, builds and supports its products in the United States. The company was among the storage industry’s first to focus its resources on SSDs for industrial and embedded-systems applications – solid-state storage has since become increasingly common in those applications[2]—and has been acknowledged for its entrepreneurship.[3] Virtium is also among the first to apply proprietary programming sequences that “bridge” between single-level-cell and multi-level-cell types of flash memory used in SSDs, thus drawing on the reliability of the former and the cost efficiencies of the latter.[4]
Virtium is listed on the Inc. 5000 rankings of companies (based on their percentages of growth over a four-year period).[5] In 2015, the company secured a growth investment from L Squared Capital Partners[6] and added two industry veterans to the company's board of directors: David Bradford and Tim Leyden.[7]
Virtium's primary products are memory modules and solid-state drives (SSDs) designed with the SATA[8] and PCI Express interfaces.[9]
Products and Specialization
Virtium specializes in memory modules, advanced components and modules, and flash-based storage products.[10][11] That product line was expanded in 2015 with additions to industrial/embedded systems category.[12][13]
The company's memory and storage products employ a variety of form factors and interfaces, including DIMM[14][15] memory modules for DDR3L, MiniDIMM and ECC SoDIMM[16] memory modules for DDR3L, and M.2,[17] mSATA, CFast, Slim SATA, CompactFlash, PCI Express Mini Card, and eUSB SLC SSDs.
Competitors
References
- ↑ "Bloomberg Business". Company Overview of Virtium Technology, Inc.
- ↑ "RTC". New Nonvolatile Memory Technologies Poised to Shake up System Design
- ↑ "Orange County Business Journal". Business Journal Honors Excellence in Entrepreneurship
- ↑ "Tom's Hardware". SLC SSDs Undergo MLC Makeover As Virtium, Transcend Release Duelling SSDs
- ↑ "Inc. Magazine". Virtium Technology
- ↑ "Orange County Register". L Squared Capital of Newport Beach invests in storage, memory firm
- ↑ "Bloomberg Business". Other Board Members
- ↑ "EE Times". Virtium introduces embedded SATA SSDs
- ↑ "The SSD Review". Virtium Finds Industrial Trends Entering Consumer Market – Flash Memory Summit 2015 Update
- ↑ "DigiTimes". Virtium ruggedized DDR3 MicroDIMM
- ↑ "StorageSearch". industrial SSDs
- ↑ "Electronic Design". Electronic Design’s Products of the Week
- ↑ "RTC Magazine". Low-Power Small-Form-Factor PCIe-Based SSDs for Embedded, Industrial Designs
- ↑ "EE Times Asia". DDR2 blade modules eye embedded computing
- ↑ "CDRinfo". Virtium Starts Offering DDR4 VLP RDIMM Samples
- ↑ "EE Times". SODIMM combines SATA SSD, DDR SDRAM technologies
- ↑ "Tom's Hardware". Virtium Introduces M.2 SSDs