About Swissbit
Swissbit makes industrial and embedded storage, including SSDs, e.MMC (soldered flash memory with a built-in controller), SD and microSD cards, CFast and USB drives. It designs and builds these products in its own Berlin plant, which it presents as a way to control supply and product lifetimes. It was founded in 2001 through a management buyout from Siemens and is based in Bronschhofen, Switzerland. In 2020 it agreed to acquire Hyperstone, a flash controller supplier, and the investment firm Ardian holds a majority stake.
Swissbit was founded in 2001 and is based in Bronschhofen, Switzerland. It is listed under Memory & Storage.
Compute Technologies
- Custom Silicon
- Edge Computing
What Swissbit works on
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.
