Industry Technology Headquarters California, United States Number of employees 200 | Website www.virtium.com Founded 1997 Type of business Privately held company | |
Key people Phu Hoang, CEO; Chinh Nguyen, CTO Thomas Magee, CFO Products Flash storage and DRAM memory modules | ||
Virtium Solid State Storage and Memory (formerly known as Virtium Technology) is a privately held American maker of semiconductor memory and solid-state disk products for computer data storage in industrial designs and embedded systems and Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT) applications. Virtium is Latin for integrity.
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Description
Virtium was co-founded in 1997 by Phu Hoang, a refugee from Vietnam, and Chinh Nguyen. Hong lived on a boat before immigrating to North America and learned English in a refugee camp. Since co-founding Virtium, Hoang has been acknowledged for his entrepreneurship.
Headquartered in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, USA, and with operations elsewhere in North America, Europe and Asia, Virtium designs, builds and supports its products in the United States. Virtium's primary products are memory modules and solid-state drives (SSDs) designed with the SATA and PCI Express interfaces.
Virtium was among the first to apply proprietary programming sequences that “bridge” between single-level-cell and multi-level-cell types of flash memory used in SSDs, thus drawing on the reliability of the former and the cost efficiencies of the latter. In 2016, Virtium introduced self-encrypting SSDs -- the first family of industrial-grade SSDs with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES-256) self-encryption available across all major drive form factors. Also in 2016, Virtium became one of the first industry vendors to market eUSB 3.0 storage modules in the ultra-small, 10-pin form factor. Later the same year, Virtium doubled the top capacity of its very-low-profile (VLP) RDIMM and Mini-RDIMM DDR4 memory modules to 64GB -- presently the highest capacity for industrial-embedded memory modules.
In August 2015, Virtium secured investment from L Squared Capital Partners and added David Bradford and Tim Leyden to its board of directors.
Products and Specialization
Virtium specializes in memory modules, advanced components and modules, and flash-based storage products. That product line was expanded in 2015 with additions to the industrial-embedded systems category.
The company's memory and storage products employ a variety of form factors and interfaces, including DIMM memory modules for DDR3L, MiniDIMM and ECC SoDIMM memory modules for DDR3L, and M.2, mSATA, CFast, Slim SATA, CompactFlash, PCI Express Mini Card, and eUSB SLC SSDs.
Competitors include SMART Modular Technologies and Swissbit.