PNY Technologies

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PNY Technologies
Type Private
Industry Flash Memory, Memory Upgrades, Video Cards
Founded 1985
Headquarters Parsippany, New Jersey, USA
Products NVIDIA Geforce & Quadro Graphics Cards, Attaché USB Flash Drives, Flash Memory Cards, PC Memory Upgrades, HDMI Cables
Employees 500+
Website www.pny.com

PNY Technologies, Inc is a manufacturer of flash memory cards, USB flash drives, solid state drives, memory upgrade modules, as well as consumer and professional graphics cards. The company is headquartered in Parsippany, NJ.

The company’s photography, mobility, 3D gaming and business solutions are widely available from major retail, ecommerce and wholesale outlets internationally. PNY products are used by a number of Fortune 500 OEM customers[citation needed] for applications that range from high-end computing and Internet/telecommunications infrastructure equipment to desktop, notebook and network servers.

A flash drive manufactured by PNY

PNY stands for Paris, New York. They used to distribute their memory modules from Paris, France to New York, United States.[1]

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History[edit]

PNY Electronics, Inc. originated out of Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1985 as a company that bought and sold memory chips. To emphasize its expansion into manufacturing new forms of memory and complementary products, the company changed its name in 1997 to PNY Technologies, Inc.

Products[edit]

PNY is a memory and graphics technology company and a manufacturer of computer peripherals.

  • Flash memory cards
  • USB flash drives
  • Solid state drives
  • Memory upgrades
  • NVIDIA GeForce, Quadro and Tesla graphics cards
  • HDMI cables
  • DRAM modules

Legacy products

  • CD-R discs

References[edit]

  1. ^ "What do the letters PNY stand for?". Wiki.answers.com. Retrieved 2012-08-29. 

External links[edit]

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