Kingston to sell Intel SSDs in January 2009

Posted on Wednesday, December 24 2008 @ 16:59 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Kingston unveiled it will enter the solid state disk (SSD) market next month in a partnership with Intel:

Kingston's co-branding, or dual-brand strategy with Intel in the SSD market will initially target the high-end enterprise and PC OEM segments, with a monthly shipment goal of 10,000 units, according to the company.

Kingston co-founder David Sun stated that Kingston does not intend to cover the manufacturing part at this stage, as SSD technology involves numerous intellectual property (IP) items. Therefore, Kingston will enter the market follow the same path as for NAND flash products (memory cards and flash drives), by securing supply for its SSD products with Intel, Sun indicated.

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