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Toshiba and Kingston Announce Direct Rambus Manufacturing Partnership
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) and Kingston Technology Company today announced a manufacturing partnership for Direct Rambus memory products, including RIMM, SO-RIMM, and Continuity modules. Kingston Technology will provide Toshiba with global just-in-time manufacturing, testing and order fulfillment services to support Toshiba's OEM customers.
"Kingston's commitment to quality engineering, manufacturing, and testing is among the highest in the industry, and is the basis for our long-standing manufacturing relationship," said Stephen D. Marlow, vice president of business development, memory business unit at TAEC. "By working with Kingston to develop Direct Rambus modules, we are ensuring our ability to provide product to our customers with the performance and quality they have come to
expect from Toshiba."
Al Soni, vice president and general manager, Kingston Technology Services Division (KTSD), added, "We are pleased that Toshiba has chosen to extend the existing manufacturing relationship with Kingston Technology to provide KTSD's global services for volume production of Toshiba's Direct Rambus Modules in 1999. The Toshiba-Kingston manufacturing relationship goes back more than six years and continues to get stronger."
Kingston's Americas Manufacturing Center in Fountain Valley, California; Asia-Pacific Manufacturing Center in Hsinchu, Taiwan; and European Manufacturing Center in Dublin, Ireland will provide Toshiba with support for its Direct Rambus RIMM module program. Kingston's ability to manufacture, test, and ship memory products with 24-48 hours allows significant time savings for Toshiba, thereby resulting in more efficient support of OEM customers
worldwide.
Marlow concluded, "Toshiba's strong memory device engineering and manufacturing capability, when combined with Kingston's time-proven module design, manufacturing and testing capability, will power Toshiba to industry leadership in the Direct Rambus module market."
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) is the North American design, manufacturing, marketing and sales arm of Toshiba Corporation, one of the world's largest suppliers of semiconductors, integrated circuits and electronic components. TAEC offers one of the broadest IC product lines in the industry as well as technologically-advanced electron tubes and solid state devices, including color picture tubes, color display tubes, liquid
crystal displays, rechargeable batteries, microwave components, laser diodes and optical transmission devices. In addition to its comprehensive offering of high quality components, the company markets a wide range of industry standard 2.5-inch hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives and DVD-ROM drives.
The company is located at 9775 Toledo Way, Irvine, CA 92618-1811. For more company information, please visit TAEC's Internet home page at: toshiba.com. For reader inquiries, please call Margie Ferro at 800-879-4963.
About Kingston Technology Company
Kingston Technology is the world's largest independent manufacturer of memory products for servers, workstations, desktops, portables, and electronic devices. Kingston Technology Services Division is one of the fastest growing contract manufacturers to global Semiconductor Manufacturers and PC OEMs. Kingston has ISO-certified manufacturing centers in the United States (ISO 9001), Ireland (ISO 9002), and Taiwan (ISO 9002). |
