JMicron
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| Traded as | |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | September 2001 |
| Headquarters | Hsinchu, Taiwan |
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Key people
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Tim Liu (Chairman) Tim Liu (President) |
| Products | Integrated circuits, bridge controllers |
| Website | www |
JMicron Technology Corporation (Chinese: 智微科技; pinyin: Zhìwēi Kējì) is a Taiwanese fabless technology design house based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. As a manufacturer of integrated circuits, they produce controller chips for bridge devices.
The company was founded in September 2001 and its headquarters is in Hsinchu, Taiwan. The company also operates an advanced R&D center based out of Irvine, California, United States.
In 2002, the company begins development of their USB 2.0 to SATA bridge controller technology.
JMicron begins developing SSD technology in 2006, launching their first generation SSD controller, the JMF601A/602A, towards the end of 2007.
JMicron's SSD controller is widely adopted by many SSD manufacturers such ASUS Eee PC, Corsair,OCZ, and Transcend. JMicron was one of the first companies to provide an SSD controller chip to these companies, allowing them to produce reasonably priced MLC SSDs.
In early 2008, a write latency issue is discovered with the JMF601A/602A that occurs when system data is nearly full and the host continues to write data. Soon after, the company released the JMF601B/602B to address the write latency problem. Also in 2008, JMicron showcases a number of peripheral products. This includes the JMB353, a hi-speed USB & 1394a to SATA II external HDD controller chip; this device is the first to feature an integrated 1394a PHY chip. Also included in the showcase is the JMB38x series, a PCIe to card reader & 1394 controller chip, the JMB211, a Gigabit Ethernet PHY controller chip, the JMB352, a hi-speed USB & eSATA to 2-port SATA II external HDD controller chip, and the JMB325, a 1- to 5-port SATA II port multiplier with hardware RAID.
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