Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory

Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory
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.com

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

  1. ↑ "Bloomberg Business". Company Overview of Virtium Technology, Inc.
  2. ↑ Marilynn Young (May 13, 2008). "Former Vietnamese refugee now heads major Rancho company". Orange County Register. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  3. ↑ Mediha DiMartino (March 20, 2013). "Business Journal Honors Excellence in Entrepreneurship". Orange County Business Journal. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  4. ↑ Ernst & Young Global Limited (June 11, 2014). "3 Irvine professionals among Entrepreneur of the Year winners". Orange County Register. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Tom's Hardware". SLC SSDs Undergo MLC Makeover As Virtium, Transcend Release Duelling SSDs
  6. ↑ "Electronic Design". Encrypted SSDs Take Aim at Industrial IoT Applications
  7. ↑ "Computer Technology Review". Virtium debuts TuffDrive, its eUSB 3.0 embedded storage modules
  8. ↑ Lauren Williams (August 5, 2015). "L Squared Capital of Newport Beach invests in storage, memory firm". Orange County Register. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Bloomberg Business". Other Board Members
  10. ↑ "The SSD Review". Virtium Finds Industrial Trends Entering Consumer Market – Flash Memory Summit 2015 Update
  11. ↑ "EE Times". Virtium introduces embedded SATA SSDs
  12. ↑ "DigiTimes". Virtium ruggedized DDR3 MicroDIMM
  13. ↑ "StorageSearch". industrial SSDs
  14. ↑ "Electronic Design". Electronic Design’s Products of the Week
  15. ↑ "RTC Magazine". Low-Power Small-Form-Factor PCIe-Based SSDs for Embedded, Industrial Designs
  16. ↑ "EE Times Asia". DDR2 blade modules eye embedded computing
  17. ↑ "CDRinfo". Virtium Starts Offering DDR4 VLP RDIMM Samples
  18. ↑ "EE Times". SODIMM combines SATA SSD, DDR SDRAM technologies
  19. ↑ "Tom's Hardware". Virtium Introduces M.2 SSDs
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