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Taiwan DRAM Makers Might Face Difficulties Due To Lack of Consolidation

The world's more proficient DRAM makers seem to be giving Taiwanese companies a hard time staying in the race for DRAM advancements. According to David Sun, co-founder of the world's top DRAM module maker Kingston Technology, these developers need to perform mergers and long-term collaborations in order to ...

23 November 2009
09:13 GMT

Make Your Data Secure with Kingston's New DataTravelerLocker+

There are those who handle their company's trade secrets but need them available at any time. There are those who are working on some personal research and want to protect their intellectual property. There are also people who work with information and must keep a lid on their secrets. Finally, there are also th...

18 November 2009
03:15 GMT

Kingston's 12GB DDR3 HyperX DDR3-1600 Kit Gets XMP Certification

Kingston might be focusing a number of its resources in the growing segment for Solid State Drives, but the Fountain Valley, California-based company hasn't forgot where its roots are. The company has just announced the debut of its new 12GB triple-channel HyperX memory kits to support Intel's LGA1366 Core...

17 November 2009
02:39 GMT

Kingston Looking into 512GB SSDs, New USB 3.0 Products

Kingston's debut in the SSD market has been made possible by the company's partnership with Intel. However, since the debut of the first Kingston branded SSDs, the company has grown significantly, having expanded its lineup with new solutions, such as the recently introduced 40GB SSDNow V-series, specifica...

16 November 2009
12:12 GMT

Kingston Intros 40GB SSD for Desktop Users

Kingston, one of the world's leading vendors of Flash-based storage solutions and memory products, has announced today the expansion of its new family of SSD V series drives with the debut of the SSD 40GB accelerator drive. According to the company, this new product has been designed as a cost-effective way to a...

26 October 2009
12:11 GMT

Kingston Boosts Speed with DataTraveler 410 USB Drive

Kingston, one of the world's leading vendors of flash-based storage solutions, has recently announced the expansion of its DataTraveler family of USB Flash drives with the introduction of a new, higher-performance model, the DataTraveler 410. The new drive is expected to provide consumers with capacities of up t...

23 September 2009
06:43 GMT

Rambus and Kingston Collaborate on the Development of Threaded Module Prototype

In an attempt to provide the IT market with a boost of performance for notebook, desktop and server systems, Rambus and Kingston Technology have announced today a partnership for the development of a threaded module prototype that takes advantage of the specifications of DDR3 DRAM technology. According to a recent pr...

17 September 2009
09:21 GMT

Kingston Is Ready for Lynnfield, Offers New HyperX DDR3 Memory Kits

With the launch of Intel's much-anticipated P55 platform and compatible Core i5 and Core i7 Lynnfield processors, major hardware makers are also gearing up with new products that have been designed to support the new platform and its features. Such is the case with Kingston Technology, one of the world's mo...

8 September 2009
03:32 GMT

Kingston Technology Intros World's First 256GB USB Flash Drive

Kingston Technology, one of the world's leading vendors of NAND Flash-based memory products, has just announced another addition to its line of DataTraveler USB flash-drives, expanding the storage capacity to a world's first 256GB. The new DataTraveler 300 comes just weeks after the company's previousl...

20 July 2009
10:38 GMT

Kingston Receives Core i5 Validation for 1333MHz DDR3 Memory

Santa Clara, California-based Intel is currently planning the launch of its next-generation mainstream platform, the Core i5-supporting P55 chipset. Although we still have to wait some time before these parts make it to market, it appears that the industry is also preparing for the much-anticipated launch. Such is th...

17 July 2009
03:58 GMT

Elpida 'Hyper' Memory Issues Stir Up the Industry

There are a couple of reports that recently emerged on the Internet, pointing to some serious issues with the memory ICs supplied by Elpida Memory to major DRAM vendors, such as Corsair, OCZ and Kingston. As it turns out, some of the company's high-end memory chips are failing and are the cause behind the issues...

10 July 2009
05:11 GMT

Kingston Adds T1 Heatspreaders for HyperX 1600MHz DDR3 Kits

Kingston Technology, one of the world's leading vendors of memory modules and other NAND Flash-based products, has just announced that it has started shipping HyperX 1600 triple-channel memory kits with new, high-profile T1 heatspreaders, specially designed to meet the requirements of gamers and overclocking ent...

23 June 2009
03:01 GMT

Kingston Unveils Pricey 128GB DataTraveler Flash Drives

Kingston technology, the world's leading vendor of memory products, has just announced the introduction of its new DataTraveler 200 (DT200) line of USB Flash drive, including the world's first 128GB USB Flash drive. With the release of this large-capacity USB flash drive, users can take advantage of an incr...

16 June 2009
06:17 GMT

Kingston Adds HyperX Fan for Overclocking Enthusiasts

Following the introduction of its new series of 'value' mainstream SSDs, Kingston Technology also introduced a new accessory for its line of high-end HyperX memory modules. This new product comes as the HyperX Fan, specifically built to support the company's latest HyperX, high-speed memory module, pro...

3 June 2009
09:30 GMT

Kingston Announces Its New Line of V-Series SSDs

Kingston Technology has just announced the expansion of its SSD offering with the introduction of its new SSDNow V 'Value' Series, designed to provide mainstream users with an alternative choice for their system's storage solution. According to the company, one of the leaders in memory products, these ...

3 June 2009
07:56 GMT

Kingston Rolls Out Pricey 12GB DDR3 Memory Kits

One of the main features of Intel's current Core i7 platform is the fact that it can allow computer enthusiasts to take advantage of up to 12GB of DDR3 memory on a single platform, consequently providing users with an increased system performance. On that note, Kingston Technology has just announced the introduc...

28 May 2009
05:21 GMT

Kingston Adds Extra Value to SSDs, Intros New Bundle Kit

Although Solid State Drives have recently reached a considerably higher performance level compared to the traditional hard disk drives, the rate of market adoption is still significantly low. This is due to one single reason, namely that SSDs are still relatively unaffordable as opposed to traditional hard drives. Ho...

22 May 2009
06:33 GMT

Kingston and Toshiba Reportedly Planning Cobranded SSDs

Having already made its debut into the expanding market for Flash-based storage solutions, Kingston Technology is being reported to collaborate with Toshiba on one of its upcoming SSD products. According to recent reports, Toshiba, a recognized pioneer in Flash technology, is looking to outsource OEM production of so...

5 May 2009
06:36 GMT

Kingston Rolls Out Mac OS X-Compatible Flash Drive

Kingston has announced the availability of its new, OS X-compatible flash drive, the DataTraveler Vault – Privacy Edition (DTVP). According to its maker, the USB flash drive is compatible with Apple Mac operating systems OS X 10.4x – 10.5x. Storage capacities range from 2GB to 32GB. Proudly unveiling the...

28 April 2009
08:57 GMT

Kingston Achieves $4 Billion Revenues in 2008

Kingston Technology, the independent world leader in memory products, has just announced its financial figures for 2008, having achieved a record 41-percent increase in total memory units shipped over the 2007 period. The company's announcement comes at a time when most corporations have recorded lower than expe...

11 March 2009
09:30 GMT

Kingston Demos 24GB Memory Configuration

Kingston Technology Europe Ltd, a subsidiary of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a worldwide leading provider of memory products, announced recently a demonstration concerning a desktop PC that has been set up with six 4GB DDR3 ValueRAM modules, totaling an impressive 24GB of memory. The system the demonstration ha...

5 March 2009
09:06 GMT

Professional Photographers Faced with New 32 CF Cards from Kingston

While SanDisk recently announced plans for the development of the world's highest capacity Secure Digital card, boasting an impressive 64GB of storage, Kingston has just introduced its first CompactFlash Elite Pro flash memory, capable of providing users with as much as 32GB of storage space. According to the me...

10 February 2009
05:31 GMT

Kingston Shipping 4GB HyperX DDR3 SO-DIMMs

Kingston announced having started shipping its high-end ultra-low latency HyperX DDR3 gaming SO-DIMMs. The new memory modules have been designed especially for the owners of Centrino 2 laptops. The HyperX DDR3 kit includes two 2GB modules which carry the HyperX banner and are equipped with blue-painted aluminum heats...

5 December 2008
02:47 GMT

Kingston Pushes DataTraveler 150 Flash Drive to 64GB

Over the course of 2008, the storage capacities attained by USB flash drives have reached some values nobody even thought possible a few years ago, with 16 and 32 GB becoming mainstream numbers rather than highly expensive oddities. However, most flash drive manufacturers are actually pushing things even further, and...

20 November 2008
01:54 GMT

Kingston Plans Building a New Manufacturing Facility

It seems that Kingston has not been doing all that bad lately – quite on the contrary, as a matter of fact, as it is well enough to plan the construction of a new memory plant for next year. According to a Digitimes article, the company feels that the current infrastructure it has is not able to withstand futur...

14 November 2008
05:46 GMT

Kingston HyperX T1 Series Memory Kits Shipping

Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the worldwide known leader in memory products, announced today having begun shipping its select DDR3 and DDR2 HyperX memory modules which feature the new T1 heatspreaders. The memory modules presented by Kingston are designed specifically to allow overclockers to push the performanc...

13 November 2008
06:52 GMT

Kingston Also Getting Ready for Core i7

Yes, Core i7 is coming, and not only is there no doubt about it anymore, but all signs are clearly pointing into that direction. Consequently, we are seeing more and more hardware manufacturers releasing products that are designed to support Intel's new technology. Ranging from motherboards to triple-channe...

30 October 2008
03:55 GMT

Kingston Joins Forces with Intel

Earlier this year, we informed you about Kingston's possible foray on the Solid State Drive market and about how it was initially expected for Q3 this year. However, the report was not that surprising, especially since almost every other flash-memory vendor had already released or announced its SSD offering, co...

7 October 2008
03:39 GMT

Kingston Bumps Its SDHC Memory Cards to 32 GB

SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) memory cards have come to replace the old SDs, providing both higher storage capacities and transfer speeds for just about any type of device, ranging from digital cameras to portable music players. And even if there are relatively few users who actually do need so much storage spa...

13 August 2008
05:36 GMT

Kingston DataTraveler Vault Privacy USB Flash Drive Review

You've probably been able to read time and time again over the past couple of months about all sorts of security breaches that have affected a tremendously large number of people (state authorities simply losing various storage media filled with the citizens' private data, etc.). These situations are extrem...

16 July 2008
01:50 GMT

New 8GB microSDHC Card from Kingston

Kingston Technology, the well-known manufacturer of memory products, has recently announced the availability of a new type of 8GB microSDHC card for mobile phones. The new 8GB microSDHC card (product name: SDC4/8GB) will allow mobile users to store more than 15,000 songs in digital format, over 4,000 images made with...

15 July 2008
05:25 GMT

Kingston DataTraveler Vienna USB Flash Drive Review

Probably just about any football (or soccer) fan out there knows by now that Spain won the Euro 2008 Championship, thus proving to be the best team on the old continent. As expected, this event, one of the most important around the world, has brought about a whole range of related products, from various souvenirs to ...

30 June 2008
02:30 GMT

Kingston to Release SSDs in Q3

Without a single doubt, hardware manufacturers are taking the question of the future of storage very seriously. To put it differently, nowadays everybody seems to be concerned with developing, manufacturing and releasing SSD storage solutions. And this is precisely why major companies, such as Intel, SanDisk, TDK or ...

18 June 2008
13:06 GMT

Kingston Snatches Top Spot on Computer DRAM Memory Module Market

Most of you have probably heard about Kingston, whether you're using their USB Flash Drives or their memory modules. However, there's a lot more to be said about this company, since chances are that the firm's components are the driving force behind your A-brand desktop or notebook PC. And this is not ...

18 June 2008
10:16 GMT

Kingston Releases 800MHz FB-DIMM Memory Kits for Mac Pro and Xserve Servers

Kingston Technology, who specializes in memory products, has recently released its 800MHz DDR2 fully-buffered dual-inline memory (FB-DIMM) "specifically designed and validated" for Apple's Mac Pro and Xserve servers. Kingston's 800MHz FB-DIMM memory kits are available immediately in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB capacit...

14 April 2008
08:10 GMT

Kingston Unveils Suicidal DDR3 Memory Modules Clocked at 2.13 GHz

Memory manufacturer Kingston Technologies has just demonstrated new blaring speeds for its HyperX DDR3 memory products. Shortly put, the company managed to overclock the memory modules to an unbelievable 2133 MHz clock speed using a pre-release sample of motherboard based on Nvidia's next-generation core-logic w...

29 February 2008
09:29 GMT

Kingston's DataTraveler Micro Reader, the Bastard Child of a Flash Drive and a Card Reader

The competition on the USB flash drives' market has become pretty intense lately and this is the reason why the most important names in the industry are coming out with all sorts of innovative products, designed to draw the customers' attention and to provide an enhanced level of functionality for the users...

12 February 2008
14:46 GMT

Kingston Also Rolls Out a New SDHC, "Just" 16 GB Though

Since all modern digital cameras require a memory card for storing photos, memory card manufacturers are also tightly connected to the digital photo industry and thus to PMA2008. So, it's actually no wonder that some of the respective companies, including here the people over at Kingston, used this opportunity i...

1 February 2008
13:41 GMT

Kingston's 19-in-1 Media Reader: Pocket Sized, Ready to Go

The world we live in is full of memory-based consumer electronics: mobile phones, photo cameras, miniature flash disks, in a word, everything but the kitchen sink. Many of these can connect via USB cables to the computer, then have their SD cards displayed as removable media, but the solution is not only slow when it...

24 January 2008
08:39 GMT

CES 2008: Kingston Rolls Out Blazing Fast, Versatile USB Flash Drives - Up to 8GB

Kingston used the CES 2008 to unveil three new Data Traveler (DT) USB flash drives: the DTHyperX, which provides very high data transfer rates (but at premium price tags), the DT110 (for the budget-conscious users) and the DT400, which allows users to work among multiple PCs by directly synchronizing files, email and...

8 January 2008
14:06 GMT

Samsung's Massive Discounts May Make RAM Industry Collapse

Samsung have been reported to sell their 256 Mbit (16 Mb x 16) DDR2 graphics memory chip stock at a dangerously low price of $0.50 per unit. This situation occurs as the company is willing to unload its graphics memory stock, but it has set a price that is lower even than the competitors' manufacturing costs. Ac...

18 December 2007
11:00 GMT

Kingston Technology Delivers Phenom-Ready DDR2 1066MHz Memory

Immediately following the Spider platform official release, Kingston Technologies has announced the availability of their 1066MHz ValueRAM cards. The memory manufacturer has worked tightly with the AMD team to achieve top performance memory modules.Computer memory is the only hardware component highly likely to creat...

20 November 2007
04:33 GMT

Kingston Intros 1800MHz DDR3 Memories

Kingston just announced the launch of a new random access memory module that is aimed at competing with the high-end offerings that are now available on the DDR3 market from well established and known companies like Corsair, Super Talent or OCZ. The new DDR3 memory modules from Kingston are compatible with mainboards...

6 October 2007
06:44 GMT

Kingston Rolls Out Super-Small, Super-Fast miniSDHC Memory Cards

As the customer demand for products that provide very high storage capacities in quite a small form factor has seriously increased over the past few years, more and more memory makers come up with new and advanced solutions meant to satisfy that demand. And one of the latest such companies is Kingston, who has just a...

14 August 2007
06:56 GMT

Kingston Goes 266x with Their Ultimate CF Cards

Yet another compact flash manufacturer revamps its professional lineup aimed at photographers who shoot a lot of bursts and thus require high transfer rates. This time it's Kingston's turn and the new products are the CompactFlash Ultimate 266x cards, with 45MB/sec. read rate and 40MB/sec. write rate."Photo...

24 July 2007
04:18 GMT

Kingston Rolls Out Two New 8 GB USB Flash Drives

It seems that 8 GB flash drives are becoming increasingly popular nowadays, as more and more manufacturers roll out new versions of their previous offerings that provide exactly this storage capacity. And one of the latest additions to the market comes from Kingston, which has just started shipping the 8 GB versions ...

17 July 2007
06:11 GMT

Yet Another USB Stick from Kingston

Kingston Technology Company announced the release of its latest flash drive, named Kingston DataTraveler 100. It comes with a capless design, the USB connector is housed inside the flash stick's casing to keep it secure from dust, dirt and accidental bending. To extend or retract the USB connector, a new "thumb-...

17 July 2007
05:05 GMT

Mobile Data Exchange, Quicker and Easier With MobileLite

On 7th May, Kingston Technology, a world leader company in memory products, announced the release of MobileLite, a 9-in-1 USB card reader that will enable mobile consumers to handle different expansion memory card formats easier than ever when changing between digital cameras, mobile phones, PCs and other portabl...

9 May 2007
10:09 GMT

Want a Coke or a Sprite, Why Not a Flash Memory?

If you have a great idea, run with it, take it to the heights that nobody else will take it, that's the motto ingenious people should take into consideration when a little light bulb lights up over their head. By thinking outside the box, many people have had ideas that have revolutionized the world; this is the...

11 April 2007
07:26 GMT


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