Kingston Enhances Memory Industry 'Analyst Forum'; Kingston Expands Role as Memory Industry Educator FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its commitment to industry-wide education, Kingston® Technology Company, the world's leading independent manufacturer of computer memory products, today announced the content expansion of its Analyst Forum, a comprehensive on-line resource offering up-to-date information on the memory market and technologies.
Intended for use by corporate IT managers, system original equipment manufacturers, end users and the media, the Kingston Analyst Forum provides frequently updated articles from leading analysts including Advanced Forecasting, Dataquest, IDC, BancBoston Robertson Stephens and Semico Research as well as proprietary Kingston research. In the first six months of operation, the site has experienced over 170,000 hits and over 17,000 thousand user sessions.
''As a market leader with insight into every facet of the memory industry, Kingston has always felt a responsibility to serve as an educational resource to our customers and the industry as a whole,'' said Gary MacDonald, Kingston's senior vice president of sales and marketing. ''With newly emerging technologies such as SDRAM and Rambus, education becomes even more important, and our website has proven to be one of the most effective ways we have found to communicate information about technologies and issues that change constantly.''
''Kingston plays a key role in both the high tech and memory markets,'' said Keith Dunne, managing director of BancBoston Robertson Stephens. ''Posting relevant information on their web site not only allows BancBoston to increase its exposure within the high tech industry, but illustrates our commitment to maintaining relationships with well-respected companies who are committed to quality and education in their fields.''
The most recent additions to the Analyst Forum include World Semiconductor Trade Statistics on DRAM revenue and summaries of Q4 earnings for the PC market, indicating an upward trend in both arenas. The Kingston Analyst Forum also features an overview of the role of supply chain management in electronics manufacturing and an exploration of pricing trends and forecasts for the memory market contributed by Kingston. These stories, as well as an archive of all past articles and links to analyst websites can be found at www.kingston.com/analyst.
In addition to the Analyst Forum, Kingston's website offers a number of other useful tools. The Ultimate Memory Guide(TM) is a comprehensive guide explaining everything a user might want to know about memory, the Server Memory Calculator helps users determine how much memory is needed for a specific application and Kingston's Memory Configurator is a tool designed to help users find the exact memory module needed for more than 6,000 systems. All of these tools can be accessed through the Kingston home page at www.kingston.com |