Kingston Technology Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells and supports flash memory products, other computer-related memory products, as well as the HyperX gaming division (now owned by HP).

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

"[4] Kingston serves an international network of distributors, resellers, retailers and OEM customers on six continents.

Kingston Technology was founded on October 17, 1987, in response to a severe shortage of 1Mbit surface-mount memory chips,[5] Taiwanese immigrant John Tu designed a new single in-line memory module (SIMM) that used readily available, older-technology through-hole components.

In 1995, Kingston opened a branch office in Munich, Germany to provide technical support and marketing capabilities for its European distributors and customers.

with each individual employee-name in The Wall Street Journal, The Orange County Register and The Los Angeles Times.

Ads also appeared in trade publications and The Wall Street Journal thanking the company's suppliers and distributors.

In 1999, Tu and Sun eventually bought back the 80 percent of Kingston owned by Softbank for $450 million.

On December 14, 1996, John Tu and David Sun allocated $71.5 million for employee bonuses as a result of the acquisition, averaging $130,000 for each of the company's 550 workers.

[10] In June 2000, Kingston announced a new supply chain management model to its memory manufacturing process.

In August of that year, Kingston made a $50 million investment in Elpida and launched a green initiative for module manufacturing.

In September, Kingston announced new DataTraveler Elite USB drives, with hardware-based security encryption.

In October, Advanced Micro Devices named Kingston "Outstanding Partner" for contributions to the AMD Athlon 64 and Opteron launches.

[13] They also announced a $26M investment in Tera Probe, the newest and largest wafer testing company in the world.

They also opened the world's largest memory module manufacturing facility in Shanghai, China.

In 2013, Kingston ships its fastest, world's largest-capacity USB 3.0 Flash Drive with DataTraveler HyperX Predator 3.0, available up to 1 TB.

Kingston launches the MobileLite Wireless reader line of storage products for smartphones and tablets.

94 on its list of "The 500 Largest Private Companies in the U.S." In 2014, Kingston HyperX released the FURY memory line for entry-level overclocking and game enthusiasts.

Kingston ships M.2 SATA SSDs for new notebook platforms, small-form factor devices and Z97 motherboards.

HyperX demos DDR4 memory at PAX Prime, allowing for faster speeds at a lower voltage.

51 on its list of "The 500 Largest Private Companies in the U.S." Kingston Technology sold HyperX to HP Inc. in June 2021[14] for $425 million.

In September 2006, Kingston received Intel's "Outstanding Supplier Award for Exceptional Support, Quality and Timely Delivery of FB-DIMM Products".

Forbes ranks Kingston as number 51 on its list of America's Largest Private Companies.