July 27, 2020 at 9:00 AM EDT
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Silicon Motion Appoints YR Kim as Vice President of Korea Sales & Operations
“I’ve known YR for many years and he has proven to be a capable leader with a strong track record of integrity and delivering solid results in customer engagements,” said
“I am thrilled to be joining the
He is a 30-year memory industry veteran and had previously served at Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix and Marvell in sales and marketing, as well as engineering leadership roles relating to SSD controllers and NAND flash.
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We are the global leader in supplying NAND flash controllers for solid state storage devices and the merchant leader in supplying SSD controllers. We have the broadest portfolio of controller technologies and our controllers are widely used in storage products such as SSDs and eMMC+UFS devices, which are found in data centers, PCs, smartphones, and commercial and industrial applications. We have shipped over six billion NAND controllers in the last ten years, more than any other company in the world. We also supply customized high-performance hyperscale data center and industrial SSD solutions. Our customers include most of the NAND flash vendors, storage device module makers and leading OEMs. For further information on
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