OCZ Technology
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| Subsidiary of Toshiba | |
| Industry | Computer |
| Fate | Dissolved and absorbed into Toshiba |
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| Successor | Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. |
| Founded | January 21, 2014 |
| Defunct | April 1, 2016 |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
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Key people
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Ralph Schmitt (CEO) |
| Products | Solid-state drives |
| Parent | Toshiba Corporation |
| Website | ocz |
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Formerly called
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OCZ Technology Group |
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| Industry | Computer |
| Fate | Bankrupted |
| Successor | OCZ Storage Solutions |
| Founded | August 2002 |
| Founders | Art Armagast and Ryan Petersen |
| Defunct | August 18, 2014 |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
| Products | Solid-state drives, Power supply units, DIMMs, Thermal grease |
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Number of employees
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550 (April 24, 2013) |
| Subsidiaries | Indilinx |
| Website | http://cases.gcginc.com/ocz/ |
OCZ is a brand of Toshiba that is used for some of its SSDs. OCZ Storage Solutions was a manufacturer of solid state drives (SSDs) based in San Jose, California, USA, and was the new company formed after the sale of OCZ Technology Group's SSD assets to Toshiba Corporation. Since entering the memory market as OCZ Technology in 2002, the company has targeted its products primarily at the computer hardware enthusiast market, producing performance DDR RAM, video cards, USB drives, and various cooling products. SSD devices with the OCZ brand that are using SATA III, PCI Express, Serial attached SCSI and USB 3.0 interfaces, for both client and enterprise applications are currently being produced. OCZ Storage Solutions was dissolved on April 1, 2016 and absorbed into Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc.
Founded in 2002, San Jose, California-based OCZ Technology Group, Inc. designed and manufactured solid state drives (SSDs) and power supply units for the consumer and enterprise markets.
OCZ maintained satellite offices in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Israel along with manufacturing and logistics facilities in Taiwan. In June 2006, OCZ went public on the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market (LSE AIM), with the ticker symbol "OCZ". On May 25, 2007, OCZ acquired PC Power & Cooling, whose products include power supplies. PC Power & Cooling is in Carlsbad, California. It operates as a separate satellite office for OCZ and maintains its own product lines. In early March 2009, OCZ announced their intent to delist from the LSE, to pursue a listing on an American stock exchange. On April 24, 2010, OCZ announced a listing on NASDAQ, with the ticker symbol "OCZ".
In September 2010 OCZ announced the RevoDrive, which is a bootable PCI-E drive for the enthusiast market. It also recently announced an SSD interface called High Speed Data Link (HSDL), which is a PCIe/SAS hybrid interface, along with corresponding products to implement it. As of 2012, OCZ's SSDs offered up to a 1 TB capacity.
In November 2010, OCZ acquired intellectual property from Solid Data Inc., for Fibre Channel, SAS, and controller assets for solid state drives. The cost was approximately $950,000, paid with restricted common stock and cash.
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