About Silicon Motion
Silicon Motion designs NAND flash controllers for SSDs and other solid state storage devices. Its chips sit between NAND memory and the host system, handling data management and error correction for client, enterprise and embedded storage. Customers include NAND flash makers, module makers, hyperscalers and device manufacturers. The company is fabless, was founded in 1995, is based in Hsinchu County, Taiwan, and its American depositary shares trade on Nasdaq under SIMO.
Silicon Motion was founded in 1995 and is based in Taipei, Taiwan. It is listed under ASICs, Memory & Storage. Its shares trade as SIMO on NASDAQ.
Compute Technologies
- ASICs
What Silicon Motion works on
ASICs
An ASIC, or application-specific integrated circuit, is a chip designed to do one job or a narrow set of jobs. Its circuits are fixed when the chip is made. A CPU can run any program; an ASIC does what it was designed for and nothing else.
Memory & Storage
Memory and storage hold the data that processors work on. Memory such as DRAM is fast and loses its contents when power is removed. Storage such as flash (NAND) is slower, cheaper per bit and keeps data without power.
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