China’s Kimtigo Not Known Until Now in SSD

China’s manufacturer Kimtigo (Tigo) will introduce its new line of SATA III SSDs including the KTA-350.

The KTA-350 is a drive that delivers transfer speeds and boots up to 10x faster than the other traditional HDD drives.  It is part of the extended line-up of Kimtigo’s SSD products.

Kimtigo is a China-based semiconductor product brandand said Tigo is the number one storage brand in China.

It was founded by Newlystar Technology company at August 2005, and was initially named as Kingtiger. Ever since their release, the company has drawn attention and there has been no looking back for the technologically advanced enterprise. They achieved success in the Chinese tech market, and have continually strived to achieve the number one ranking in the mainland market share.

Aiming at a higher market share, Tigo utilized its globalization strategy in full swing, by renaming the brand to Kimtigo, which originates from the Chinese pronunciation, which means golden quality, prosperous, and surpass. They have been a strategic partner of Samsung China and enjoyed success and dominated the memory market as one of the leading manufacturers of flash card, flash drive, SSD, and power banks.

Kimtigo has an experienced team with 60 engineers (40 in Shenzhen and 20 in Taipei).

With quality control, Kimtigo products have passed a series of certifications: RoHS, FCC, CE, C-Tick, SGS, etc.

Kingston’s ideas are created from design creative teams from international creation centers in Hong Kong, France, and Taiwan.

In 2013, Kimtigo generated revenues of over $160 million, and boasts a sales record estimated to $250 million in early 2014 with offices located in Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Taipei, Hanoi/Vietnam, Moscow/Russia, Barcelona/Spain, Miami/USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, South Africa.

In addition to having global offices established in USA, Spain, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other trade countries, Kimtigo will also expand its sales channel to the technology savvy nations of Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam and so on. Southeast Asia is quickly catching up with worldwide advances in IT, and enjoys growth and development in that sector. Southeast Asia is now considered to have one of the world’s fastest growth rates, with an average GDP of more than 6% over the past decade.

Kimtigo has launched their vast range of memory and power bank products including the SATA III SSD drives-KTA-350, KTA-350S, KTA-300, Himlayans range of colourful USB drives, digital products such as the Power bank KTD series. It also includes semi-conductor products like the Rockies DRAMs with high bandwidth interface and high frequency up to 1,600MHz.

Kimtigo officially released the KTA-350 to the Southeast Asian crowd as part of their expansion in the SEA market area. It is a faster, more durable, and energy-sufficient SSD drive..

KTA-350 is powered by the SMI technology controller and an integrated with a DDR3 256MB built-in cache, which means faster boot ups, quick transfer and sharing of files and storage of memory rich media, documents and computing software.

The KTA-350 is an hybrid SSD drive, it comes equipped with a SATA III 6GB/s and also can be backwards compatible with SATA II interface at 3GB/s. It offers a capacity up to 480GB, and offers read and write speed at 500MB/s and 400MB/s respectively.

Built with a sturdy and durable exterior, it consumes less power than other bulky SSD drives, promoting longer battery life in notebooks, and operates quietly for a noise-free working environment. Added shockproof and anti-vibration features means the KTA-350 can withstand unlimited usage without heating up and provide consistent performance for an extended period. This makes it a more cost-efficient gadget compared to its mechanical counterparts. It is designed in a smooth black covering with the Kimtigo logo displayed on its cover.

It is lightweight, slim and convenient to use in any portable devices, like notebooks, tablets etc. Its dimensions measures at 100×69.9×7.00mm, and weighs in at 78g.
 
KTA-350 supports Windows 98/98SE/ME/2000/XP/Vista/ 7, Mac OS 9.0 & Linux Kernel 2.4 and above. And it comes with the warranty of 3 years.