Progress requires a line of products capable of making every step forward sustainable. Therefore, it’s no surprise that the evolution of High Performance Computing (HPC) and Kingston® Technology are so closely linked. Kingston started in 1987 as a response to a severe shortage of surface-mount memory chips. The company has grown into the world’s largest independent manufacturer of memory products and accessories. Follow our journey and witness how HPC and Kingston have crossed paths time and time again, and will continue to do so. HAND IN HAND

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1987 ’s Touchstone Delta supercomputer comes online: 1990 1991-92 Thinking Machines ushers in era of modern 32 GFLOPS capability- Hubble supercomputing with Connection Machine 2, telescope launched. capable of executing two billion operations- Intel® introduces the low-cost 486Sx to per-second. the public - The World Wide Web becomes Kingston breaks into the market with a revolutionary available to the public - Open-source Linux Single In-Line Memory Module (SIMM), utilising Kingston co-markets memory is released. older through-hole components, as a result, creating upgrades for PCs: first time a new industry standard. a PC and a memory manufacturer team up to create a co-branded module. Synchronous DRAM is introduced. AMD releases the Duron processor, which 1993 reaches speeds from 600 MHz to 1.8GHz - Kingston expands into “Internet Bubble” bursts. networking peripherals and storage enclosures. is founded.

2000 1999 1997-98 1996 1994-95 Kingston launches Kingston readies Payton AVL, later to become Technology, which, the following 2001 an official memory Kingston introduces year consolidates the DRAM chip Kingston DataTraveler and validation lab for packaging process, reducing , eBay and Intel. breaks 16GB Yahoo! Founded. Data Pak portable it from 6-8 weeks to less than barrier with products. 10 days. Fully-Buffered Over 65 percent of American households (FBDIMMs). own at least one Napster founded - Y2K fears Kingston widely computer. - Blackberry® launches first implements Kingston: Kingston . burn-in testing #1 module IBM’s launches its for all server Twitter manufacturer Roadrunner first SSDs for modules and for third-party supercomputer clients and 2002 (24 hours of DDR3 hits Amazon the market. memory reaches the servers. Kingston’s first overclocked stress testing Web market; #1 1 petaflop memory module debuts, Internet users simulating the Services USB drive milestone. company patents EPOC hit one billion – first 3 months land. manufacturer chip-stacking technology. YouTube debuts. of life). in the world.

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007-08 2009 CERN’s Large Hadron Collider begin its first NASA’s Spirit rover lands Kingston opens research run. 2010 in Mars, transmits data the world’s largest Kingston introduces back to Earth for the memory-module Server Premier memory. following six years - manufacturing Facebook begins. facility in . Kingston First NVMe-spec Kingston releases releases SSD flash ships in high-performance MIT founds Computer optimized for servers - DDR4 modules for quad- Science and Artificial read/write introduced – NSA channel computing. Intelligence Laboratory Kingston patents workloads Kingston First reprogrammable builds the largest Digital (CSAIL) - Human fully automated and QoS. data center in Number of Genome Project memory module quantum computer is ships M.2 created. the US. SATA SSDs. smartphones in use completed - DDR2 tester. exceeds one billion. released. 2017 2016 2014 2012 Kingston’s data center PCIe (DCP1000) SSD unleashes the industry’s highest data throughput for the world’s most media- intensive applications.

Since 1987, Kingston has offered the highest quality memory and technology solutions on the market, while tirelessly pursuing Kingston: innovation. The need for higher performance LEARN HOW CUTTING-EDGE KINGSTON in data centers is growing beyond SATA and SAS performance. PCIe NVMe is the TECHNOLOGY CAN MEET AND EXCEED YOUR HIGH- What’s natural next step. Kingston’s next generation PERFORMANCE NEEDS AT: KINGSTON.COM DCU1000 U.2 PCIe NVMe is ready for the next? challenge.

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