Virtium
| Company type | Privately owned |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | Rancho Santa Margarita, California |
Key people | Phu Hoang, CEO; Chinh Nguyen, CTO Thomas Magee, CFO |
| Products | Flash storage and DRAM memory modules |
Number of employees | between 51 and 200 |
| Website | www |
Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory (Virtium is Latin for integrity—formerly known as Virtium Technology) is a privately held American maker of semiconductor memory and solid-state disk products for computer data storage in industrial designs and embedded systems.[1]
Description
Virtium was co-founded in 1997 by Phu Hoang, a refugee from Vietnam in 1984. Hoang lived on a boat before immigrating to North America, learning English in a refugee camp.[2] Hoang was acknowledged for entrepreneurship in 2013 and 2014.[3][4]
Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, USA, and with operations elsewhere in North America, Europe and Asia, Virtium designs, builds and supports its products in the United States. Virtium was among the first to apply proprietary programming sequences that “bridge” between single-level-cell and multi-level-cell types of flash memory used in SSDs, thus drawing on the reliability of the former and the cost efficiencies of the latter.[5] In 2016, Virtium introduced self-encrypting SSDs -- the first family of industrial-grade SSDs with self-encryption available across all major drive form factors.[6] Also in 2016, Virtium became one of the first industry vendors to market eUSB 3.0 storage modules in the ultra-small, 10-pin form factor.[7]
In August 2015, Virtium secured investment from L Squared Capital Partners[8] and added David Bradford and Tim Leyden to its board of directors.[9]
Virtium's primary products are memory modules and solid-state drives (SSDs) designed with the SATA and PCI Express interfaces.[10] [11]
Products and Specialization
Virtium specializes in memory modules, advanced components and modules, and flash-based storage products.[12][13] That product line was expanded in 2015 with additions to industrial/embedded systems category.[14][15]
The company's memory and storage products employ a variety of form factors and interfaces, including DIMM[16][17] memory modules for DDR3L, MiniDIMM and ECC SoDIMM[18] memory modules for DDR3L, and M.2,[19] mSATA, CFast, Slim SATA, CompactFlash, PCI Express Mini Card, and eUSB SLC SSDs.
Competitors include SMART Modular Technologies and Swissbit.
References
- ^ "Bloomberg Business".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) Company Overview of Virtium Technology, Inc. - ^ Marilynn Young (May 13, 2008). "Former Vietnamese refugee now heads major Rancho company". Orange County Register. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ Mediha DiMartino (March 20, 2013). "Business Journal Honors Excellence in Entrepreneurship". Orange County Business Journal. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ Ernst & Young Global Limited (June 11, 2014). "3 Irvine professionals among Entrepreneur of the Year winners". Orange County Register. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ "Tom's Hardware".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) SLC SSDs Undergo MLC Makeover As Virtium, Transcend Release Duelling SSDs - ^ "Electronic Design".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) Encrypted SSDs Take Aim at Industrial IoT Applications - ^ "Computer Technology Review".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) Virtium debuts TuffDrive, its eUSB 3.0 embedded storage modules - ^ Lauren Williams (August 5, 2015). "L Squared Capital of Newport Beach invests in storage, memory firm". Orange County Register. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
- ^ "Bloomberg Business". Other Board Members
- ^ "The SSD Review".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) Virtium Finds Industrial Trends Entering Consumer Market – Flash Memory Summit 2015 Update - ^ "EE Times".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) Virtium introduces embedded SATA SSDs - ^ "DigiTimes". Virtium ruggedized DDR3 MicroDIMM
- ^ "StorageSearch". industrial SSDs
- ^ "Electronic Design".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) Electronic Design’s Products of the Week - ^ "RTC Magazine". Low-Power Small-Form-Factor PCIe-Based SSDs for Embedded, Industrial Designs
- ^ "EE Times Asia".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) DDR2 blade modules eye embedded computing - ^ "CDRinfo".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) Virtium Starts Offering DDR4 VLP RDIMM Samples - ^ "EE Times".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) SODIMM combines SATA SSD, DDR SDRAM technologies - ^ "Tom's Hardware".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) Virtium Introduces M.2 SSDs