This is a list of manufacturers of flash memory controllers for various flash memory devices like SSDs, USB flash drives, SD cards, and CompactFlash cards.
Name | Based in | Status | Manufactures NVMe Controllers |
Manufactures SATA Controllers |
Manufactures CF & SD Controllers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fusion-io
[1] Acquired by SanDisk then Western Digital |
United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Greenliant Systems [2] | United States | Independent | No | Yes | Yes |
Hyperstone [3] | Germany | Independent | No | Yes | Yes |
Indilinx
[4] Acquired by Toshiba then Kioxia |
South Korea | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
Intel [5] | United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
IntelliProp [6] | United States | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
InnoGrit [7] | China | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
JMicron, spun off into Maxiotek [8] [9] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Marvell [10] | United States | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
Maxio [11] | China | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
Micron | United States | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Novachips [12] | South Korea | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
Phison [13] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Realtek [14] [15] [16] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | — |
Samsung [17] | South Korea | Captive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SK Hynix | South Korea | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
SandForce
[18] Acquired by Seagate Technology |
United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
Silicon Motion [19] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Starblaze [20] | China | Independent | Yes | No | No |
sTec
[21] Acquired by HGST then Western Digital |
United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
Kioxia
[22] Spun off from Toshiba |
Japan | Captive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
VIA Technologies [23] | Taiwan | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
FADU [24] | South Korea | Captive | Yes | No | No |
Kraftway [25] | Russia | Independent | Yes | No | No |
DSOL | Russia | Independent | No | Yes | No |
Note: Independent=sells to any 3rd party; Captive=only used for their own products
The following were the largest NAND flash memory manufacturers, as of the second quarter of 2023. [26]
Samsung remains the largest NAND flash memory manufacturer as of second quarter 2023. [29]
This is a list of manufacturers of flash memory controllers for various flash memory devices like SSDs, USB flash drives, SD cards, and CompactFlash cards.
Name | Based in | Status | Manufactures NVMe Controllers |
Manufactures SATA Controllers |
Manufactures CF & SD Controllers |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fusion-io
[1] Acquired by SanDisk then Western Digital |
United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Greenliant Systems [2] | United States | Independent | No | Yes | Yes |
Hyperstone [3] | Germany | Independent | No | Yes | Yes |
Indilinx
[4] Acquired by Toshiba then Kioxia |
South Korea | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
Intel [5] | United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
IntelliProp [6] | United States | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
InnoGrit [7] | China | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
JMicron, spun off into Maxiotek [8] [9] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Marvell [10] | United States | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
Maxio [11] | China | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
Micron | United States | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Novachips [12] | South Korea | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
Phison [13] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Realtek [14] [15] [16] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | — |
Samsung [17] | South Korea | Captive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
SK Hynix | South Korea | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
SandForce
[18] Acquired by Seagate Technology |
United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
Silicon Motion [19] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Starblaze [20] | China | Independent | Yes | No | No |
sTec
[21] Acquired by HGST then Western Digital |
United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
Kioxia
[22] Spun off from Toshiba |
Japan | Captive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
VIA Technologies [23] | Taiwan | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
FADU [24] | South Korea | Captive | Yes | No | No |
Kraftway [25] | Russia | Independent | Yes | No | No |
DSOL | Russia | Independent | No | Yes | No |
Note: Independent=sells to any 3rd party; Captive=only used for their own products
The following were the largest NAND flash memory manufacturers, as of the second quarter of 2023. [26]
Samsung remains the largest NAND flash memory manufacturer as of second quarter 2023. [29]