Whois & Analysis for kingston.com

Kingston Technology Corporation is an American, privately held, multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells and supports flash memory products and other computer-related memory products.

Headquartered in Fountain Valley, California, United States, Kingston Technology employs more than 3,000 employees worldwide as of Q1 2016.

The company has manufacturing and logistics facilities in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Taiwan, and Mainland China.

Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is a type of random-access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit.

The capacitor can be either charged or discharged; these two states are taken to represent the two values of a bit, conventionally called 0 and 1.

Since even "nonconducting" transistors always leak a small amount, the capacitors will slowly discharge, and the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically.

Because of this refresh requirement, it is a dynamic memory as opposed to static random-access memory (SRAM) and other static types of memory.

Unlike flash memory, DRAM is volatile memory (vs.

non-volatile memory), since it loses its data quickly when power is removed.

However, DRAM does exhibit limited data remanence.

A USB flash drive, also variously known as a USB drive, USB stick, thumb drive, pen drive, jump drive, flash-drive or USB memory, is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface.

USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, and physically much smaller than an optical disc.

Most weigh less than.

Since first appearing on the market in late 2000, as with virtually all computer memory devices, storage capacities have risen while prices have dropped., flash drives with anywhere from 8 to 256 GB are frequently sold, and less frequently 512 GB and 1 TB units.

Storage capacities as large as 2 TB are planned, with steady improvements in size and price per capacity expected.

Some allow up to 100,000 write/erase cycles, depending on the exact type of memory chip used, and have a 10-year shelf storage time.

A solid-state drive (SSD, also known as a solid-state disk) is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently.

SSD technology primarily uses electronic interfaces compatible with traditional block input/output (I/O) hard disk drives (HDDs), which permit simple replacements in common applications.

Additionally, new I/O interfaces like SATA Express and M.2 have been designed to address specific requirements of the SSD technology.

Secure Digital (SD) is a non-volatile memory card format developed by the SD Card Association (SDA) for use in portable devices.