Yet Another One SSD Maker: Shenzhen Longsys Electronics
128th company in the world in this field
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on August 19, 2014 at 3:08 pmShenzhen Longsys Electronics Co.,Ltd based in China is the latest SSD maker we have discovered. It’s the 128th known company (see table below) in solid-state drives to compare with only three manufacturers of competing HDDs.
USA leads the pack with 42% SSD makers, followed by Taiwan with 22% and China with 11%. Among other big countries, no one is known in Australia, France, India, Spain or Italy or Russia.
Established in 1998, Longsys is a DMS (Design, Module, Service) company focusing on NAND flash applications for software and hardware products. It manufactures USB keys, SD cards, embedded products, Wifi devices and SSDs.
Its line of SSDs includes classical 2.5-inch 6Gb SATA MLC drives from 32GB to 512GB (read 520MB/s, write 175MB/s), mSATA (32GB to 256GB), M.2 NFGG (32GB to 256GB) and SATA disk in package (64GB to 256GB).
It has offices in Hong-Kong and Taiwan, and a representative in UK.
Number of SSD Makers by Country
Country | Number of SSD Makers | % |
Austria | 2 | 1.6% |
Canada | 3 | 2.3% |
China | 14 | 10.9% |
Germany | 1 | 0.8% |
Hong Kong | 1 | 0.8% |
Israel | 2 | 1.6% |
Japan | 10 | 7.8% |
Korea | 6 | 4.7% |
Norway | 1 | 0.8% |
Poland | 1 | 0.8% |
Singapore | 1 | 0.8% |
Switzerland | 1 | 0.8% |
Taiwan | 28 | 21.9% |
UK | 3 | 2.3% |
USA | 54 | 42.2% |
TOTAL | 128 | 100,0% |
(Source: StorageNewsletter.com)