Kingston, Intel Team Up for Flash Memory-Based Drives
Kingston Technology Co. has teamed up with Intel Corp. to market flash memory-based drives to top manufacturers of laptop computer and hosts. The accord with chipmaker Intel is a switch for Fountain Valley-based Kingston, the star maker of storage modules for computers.
Kingston’s chief business is purchasing memory chips and assembling them onto circuit boards that further the operation of computers. It also creates memory cards that store photos, songs and data on consumer electronics. The move into flash drives is part of an expansion. The company jumped selling flash cards and portable drives two years ago.
The shift puts Kingston in an emerging market. Drives made of memory chips are beginning to catch business from conventional disk drives.
Kingston projects to resell drives made by Intel, which makes flash memory chips. Kingston is primed to furnish technical suppor, testing and sell drives.