Nov 18, 2010 06:30 GMT  ·  By

Although Kingston's been promoting mostly its NAND Flash business lately, with numerous new flash drives and SSDs making their way onto the market, that hasn't stopped it from recording some pretty impressive sales figures in other areas as well, market research company iSupply ranking it as the number one DRAM module maker for the first six months of 2010.

According to the report, that, however, covers just the company's DRAM business, without providing any info on its equally (if not more) lucrative NAND segment, Kingston's revenue from memory modules in the first half of 2010 was more than $2.56 billion (U.S.), giving it 45.8 percent of the total third-party memory module market.

As a comparison, in February, Kingston announced that its 2009 global revenues were $4.1 billion, the second highest in company history.

Kingston's memory module products include branded or system-specific memory, such as ValueRAM industry-standard memory built to JEDEC specs and designed for system integrators and white box builders and HyperX memory for gamers and PC enthusiasts who demand higher performance and speed.

"The strong relationships we have maintained for many years with our partners helped carry us through the downturn of 2008 and part of 2009," said John Tu, co-founder, Kingston.

“We are fortunate that these relationships allow Kingston to stay strong," added Mr. Tu.

"Our good fortune has come from taking care of our employees and customers since we started this company over 20 years ago," said David Sun, co-founder, Kingston.

"We can only be successful if we continue to work hard and take care of each other," concluded Mr. Sun.

And since, in 2009, iSuppli ranked Kingston as the world's top memory module maker with revenues of more than $2.85 billion and a 40.3 percent share of the third-party DRAM market, we're pretty sure that, based on the current trend, Kingston will manage to retain this position by the end of 2010.