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Kingston Technology, or simply Kingston, designs and manufactures computer memory products, such as servers, desktop computers, and notebooks, and flash memory products for smartphones, cameras, and IoT devices. The company also provides contract manufacturing and supply chain management services for semiconductor manufacturers and system OEMs, and the company's Kingston Fury brand is dedicated to memory products for gaming.
Kingston is privately held and is the world's largest independent manufacturer of computing memory products. The company is headquartered in Fountain Valley, California, with locations in the United Kingdom and Taiwan. Kingston employs more than 3,000 people worldwide and serves an international network of distributors, resellers, retailers, and OEM customers on six continents. The company's 2020 revenues exceeded $13 billion, and Kingston was ranked #19 on Forbes' "America's Largest Private Companies 2021" list.
Kingston is regarded as one of the “Best Companies to Work for in America” by Fortune magazine, and Kingston’s tenets of respect, loyalty, flexibility, and integrity create an excellent corporate culture. Kingston believes that investing in employees is essential and that each individual employee is a vital part of the company’s success.
Kingston was founded in 1987 in Orange County, California, by John Tu and David Sun. They founded the company with a revolutionary new Single In-Line Memory Module (SIMM) that redefined industry standards for years. In 1992, Kingston was ranked by Inc. magazine as the fastest-growing privately held company in America and broke the billion dollar sales mark by 1995.