Samsung, SK hynix, Micron & Kioxia
Europe assembles the drive. Nobody here makes what is inside it.
Every SSD, memory card and stick of RAM sold in Europe contains NAND flash or DRAM from one of five companies, none of them European: Samsung and SK hynix in South Korea, Micron in the United States, Kioxia in Japan, and YMTC in China. The European brands on the storage card — Intenso, Angelbird, iStorage — are genuinely European companies doing genuine work on controllers, firmware, encryption and support. They buy the silicon. There has been no European memory fab since Qimonda of Munich went bankrupt in 2009.
What you are replacing (5)
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Samsung Semiconductor ↗
Hwaseong. The largest memory maker on earth.
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SK hynix ↗
Icheon. DRAM and NAND.
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Micron ↗
Boise, Idaho. Also sells as Crucial.
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Kioxia ↗
Tokyo, formerly Toshiba Memory.
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Western Digital ↗
San Jose. Also SanDisk.
European alternatives (0)
Suggest another →There is no European alternative to this.
Not an unfinished card: we looked, and nothing in Europe does this at a scale you could actually switch to. It is here so the gap is visible — these are the places where something is missing rather than merely losing.
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