Patriot Memory

{{Infobox company

| name = Patriot Memory

| logo = Patriot Memory.png

| logo_size = 291px

| type = Private LLC

| industry = Storage devices

| founded = {{start date and age|1985}} as PDP Systems Inc

| founders = Paul Jones, Douglas Diggs and Phil Young

| location_city = 47027 Benicia Street, Fremont, California (ZIP Code 94538)

| area_served = Worldwide

| key_people = Paul Jones (CEO)
Douglas Diggs (President/Chairman)
Phil Young (CFO/COO)

| products = Memory cards
USB flash drives
Memory modules
Solid-state drives
PC Gaming peripherals

| brands = BURST
EP PRO
EP
FLARE
GAUNTLET
INSTAMOBILE
LX
SINGE
V30
VIPER GAMING

| homepage = {{URL|https://www.patriotmemory.com}}

| location_country = United States

}}

Patriot Memory is an American designer and manufacturer of PC-based USB flash drives, memory modules, solid state drives and gaming peripherals.[https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4515002 Patriot Memory Company Snapshot] Bloomberg. Retrieved Dec 31, 2016

Patriot Memory is based in Silicon Valley and designs, develops, manufactures and assembles computer components locally.[https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2010/01/18/smallb4.html "Memory maker in Fremont continues finding success in Silicon Valley"] Silicon Valley Business Journal Jan. 21, 2010

History

PDP Systems was founded in 1985 and named after its founders Paul Jones, Doug Diggs and Phil Young. Jones, Diggs, and Young were high school classmates at Awalt High School in Mountain View, CA. Jones and Young went on to UC Davis, while Diggs graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles. PDP Systems started during Jones's time as a student at UC Davis as an OEM builder of computer memory chips into DRAM modules for many of the major PC manufacturers.

Starting in 2003 PDP Systems released their own branded Patriot Memory line of DDR SDRAM to be sold in the retail and online market. Unlike the SDRAM manufacturers that released their SDRAM as bare modules, the Patriot Memory modules featured a bladed metal heat shielding across the entire DDR module.[https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/ask-me-anything-official-patriot-representatives.1483737/post-10949555 Ask Me Anything - Official Patriot Representatives | Tom's Hardware Forum] September 12, 2013. Patriot Memory continued the use of full module heat sinks across each generation of DDR generations to include DDR4.

The Patriot Memory brand eventually became the company name. Patriot Memory has two assembly lines at their facilities in Fremont, California, and Taipei, Taiwan. Jones credits keeping manufacturing in the US as a result of having highly automated machines and reduced shipping costs.{{Cite web |url=http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/patriot-interview_3.html |title=Xbit's Laboratories interview with Patriot Memory Founder Paul Jones. Xbit's Laboratories by Anna Filatova April 7, 2006. |access-date=January 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102081053/http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/patriot-interview_3.html |archive-date=January 2, 2017 |url-status=dead }} Patriot continues to evolve their "VIPER" brand of memory modules, accessories (keyboards, mice, headsets, headset stands, mousepads, and USB flash drives), and "BURST" solid state drives.

Patriot Memory

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