Steffen Hellmold

SandForce, Inc. maufactures chip products. The company was founded by Alex Naqvi and Radoslav Danilak in 2006 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Seagate Technology Plc engages in the development, production, and distribution of data storage products and electronic data storage solutions. Its products include hard disk drives, solid state hybrid drives, solid state drives, peripheral component interconnect express cards, serial advanced technology attachment controllers, storage subsystems and computing solutions. The firm offers its products under the Backup Plus and Expansion product lines, and Maxtor and LaCie brands. The company was founded by Finis Conner, Syed Iftikar, Doug Mahon, David Thomas Mitchell, and Alan F. Shugart in 1978 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Lexar Media, Inc. designs, develops and markets digital film and connectivity products. It is a marketing firm of digital media and other flash based storage products for consumer markets that utilize digital media for the capture and retrieval of digital content. The firm also offers a line of digital music players and portable data storage devices as well as various connectivity products that link its media products to personal computers and other electronic host devices. The company was founded in 1996 by Paul Wenz, Mike Liccardo, John Reimer and Petro Estakhri and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. manufactures semiconductors. It markets Samsung semiconductor product lines including its DRAM and SRAM memory chips, flash memory components, thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels and screens and system LSI products. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

SMART Worldwide Holdings, Inc. designs, manufactures and supplies memory and embedded storage products. It offers flash memory cards, solid-state drives (SSDs), and DRAM modules for OEMs in the computer, defense, gaming, networking, and telecommunication sectors. The company was founded by Ajay B. Shah and Mukesh D. Patel on March 26, 2004 and is headquartered in Newark, CA.

Part of Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. is a company that specializes in semiconductors and related devices. The company is based in Waltham, MA.