Silicon Motion

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation, stylized as SiliconMotion is an American-Taiwanese company involved in developing NAND flash controller integrated circuits (ICs) for solid-state storage devices. The company claims to have supplied more NAND flash controllers than any other company, over five billion from 2006 through 2016. They are found in commercial, enterprise, and industrial applications ranging from SSDs, eMMCs, memory cards, and USB flash drives.

Silicon Motion
Native name
慧榮科技
Huirong Technology
Company typePublic
Nasdaq: SIMO
IndustrySemiconductors
FoundedNovember 1995 (November 1995)
Headquarters
Zhubei
,
Taiwan (global), California, United States (corporate)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
James Chow (Chairman of the Board of Directors) Wallace Kou (President & CEO)
Products
  • NAND Flash Controllers
  • (SSD / eMMC / Flash Card / UFD Controllers)
  • Single-Package SSD Solutions
  • Enterprise SSD Solutions (Shannon brand)
  • Embedded Graphics
Websitesiliconmotion.com

Silicon Motion purchased Shannon Systems which added PCI Express solid-state drives for the Chinese data center market to its portfolio. Controllers are marketed under the “SMI” brand, enterprise-grade SSDs under the "Shannon Systems" brand.

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