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Kingston Technology Remains Top DRAM Module Supplier for 2021

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Kingston Technology Company, Inc., a world leader in memory products and technology solutions, today announced it has been ranked top third-party DRAM module supplier in the world, according to the latest rankings by revenue from analyst firm TrendForce (formerly DRAMeXchange). Kingston retains its number 1 position with an estimated 78.7% market share on $14.2B (USD) revenue. TrendForce states that Kingston increased revenue by 8% YoY marking the 19th consecutive year that Kingston has held the top spot.

According to the report, the world's top five memory module houses accounted for 90% of total sales in 2021 with Kingston holding nearly 80% of that market. As one of the leading buyers of DRAM chips in the world, Kingston provides a highly customized production model which has led to continuous growth in shipment scale and drove increased revenue by 8%. TrendForce states that pandemic-induced lifestyle changes and the demand for distance learning grew in the past two years, driving the growth of DRAM module shipments. Kingston took the approach to be prepared for those segments. Kingston's success is largely attributed to their working attitude of 'Kingston Is With You,' which solidifies the dominant force the company holds among consumers and organizations alike looking to upgrade new and existing systems.



Most recently, Kingston announced the addition of AMD EXPO certified DDR5 modules to the high performance Kingston FURY Beast line of memory. As the industry transitions from current DDR4 memory modules to DDR5, Kingston enhanced its production infrastructure to readily support forthcoming platforms. As the industry leader, Kingston began shipping DDR5 modules last year and became the first third-party supplier to receive Intel Platform Validation on its DDR5 UDIMMS. This marked the first and arguably the most important milestone validating compatibility between Kingston DDR5 memory solutions and Intel platforms utilizing DDR5.

"The 2021 findings from TrendForce reflect the company's continued growth and flexibility to tackle another challenging business year," said Craig Tilmont, senior director of marketing, Kingston. "As we celebrate our 35-year anniversary, it reinforces our company's strength, position and importance in the industry as we maintain the top spot for the 19th consecutive year. Kingston Is With You and we stand ready to support high volume demands."

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I've been buying G.Skill memory for over a decade. Glad to know that Kingston has cornered the market; as a business we refuse to do business with businesses that favor cronyism over capitalism. Higher prices only ever favor corporations like Kingston and never anyone else.
 

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I don't know for sure but I would be curious if this counts pre-built Dells and HPs and such. I've seen very basic, no-heatsink sticks of RAM from Kingston in quite a few of those over the years.

If they are one of the main OEM providers for RAM in bulk-purchase office PCs and such then I wouldn't be surprised at all that their market share is so high compared to others.

That being said, I could be entirely wrong.
 
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I've been buying G.Skill memory for over a decade. Glad to know that Kingston has cornered the market; as a business we refuse to do business with businesses that favor cronyism over capitalism. Higher prices only ever favor corporations like Kingston and never anyone else.
Interesting point of view. Over here in Europe Kingston memory is pretty much always the cheapest option available. Especially noticeable on DDR5.
 
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I don't know for sure but I would be curious if this counts pre-built Dells and HPs and such. I've seen very basic, no-heatsink sticks of RAM from Kingston in quite a few of those over the years.

If they are one of the main OEM providers for RAM in bulk-purchase office PCs and such then I wouldn't be surprised at all that their market share is so high compared to others.

That being said, I could be entirely wrong.
I suspect these numbers indeed include OEM shipments whether its pcs, servers and laptops. Most of these OEMs do rely heavily on Kingston for RAM for decades at this point.
 
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Never had any issues with any Kingston products and I've used many of their flash drives, RAM modules, and even their SSDs which are often the best value/lowest price options.
 
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Where is micron here??? All we sell at work is micron and corsair.
 
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Where is micron here??? All we sell at work is micron and corsair.
Micron, Samsung and SK hynix are the biggest memory chip makers, they make the chips and sell it to others (like corsair, gskill, adata) so they assemble, bin them etc. Micron had their own Crucial line of ram kits but they closed it recently
 

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Never had any issues with any Kingston products and I've used many of their flash drives, RAM modules, and even their SSDs which are often the best value/lowest price options.
There's been a handful of Kingston SSDs that have a history of encountering hardware issues. Admittedly, the only one I had personal experience with was the Kingston A400, which has a habit of having the firmware corrupt, making the drive display as "Satafirm S11" in BIOS or windows, if it shows up at all. I also used to use their RAM a lot since the DDR3 days, until systems I built kept on having memory issues that were fixed once I swapped out the RAM. My go to is G.Skill nowadays and I have avoided Kingston for most PC components for a few years if I have the choice to do so.

I'm not saying this to discredit your experiences, just to remind people to be aware that their experience may not be consistent with the experience of others.
 
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Micron, Samsung and SK hynix are the biggest memory chip makers, they make the chips and sell it to others (like corsair, gskill, adata) so they assemble, bin them etc. Micron had their own Crucial line of ram kits but they closed it recently
This is not true, micron still actively produces millions of crucial kits. They cancelled their gaming line, however the desktop/enterprise line is still massive.
 
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