• multitotal
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    30 days ago

    I had no idea Kingston was Chinese, although that makes sense. I have a couple Kingston SSDs.

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      30 days ago

      It is US American

      Sauce: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Technology

      Additional info:

      Kingston is #1 with 34% market share (nothing new, just put it here for context reasons)

      Adata (#2 with 11%), Gigabyte (#7 with 2%) & Transcend (#10 with 1%) are Taiwanese. I assume they are going to set sail for the West as soon as Taiwan gets reincorporated

      Lexar (#3 with 11%) is US American owned by a Chinese parent company

      Kimtigo (#4 with 9%), Biwin (#5 with 7%) & Colorful (#6 with 5%) are from the PRC

      Teclast (#8 with 2%) is likely Chinese, don’t have solid evidence tho

      PNY (#9 with 1%) is US American

      That makes 35% for the US, 14% for Taiwan and 34% for the PRC (if you count Lexar as Chinese - idk how much they are still linked to the US tho)

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          29 days ago

          Ngl I did too at first. But I was sceptical because Kingston sounds like a British bourgeois suburb rather than a chinese company (and upon my research I found out that both of my prejudice claims turned out to be true since Kingston upon Thames is literally a Royal London district where “some Saxon kings were crowned” - Wikipedia 💀). I didn’t think it was impossible, but rather unlikely.

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            Kingston sounds like a British bourgeois suburb

            I get connotations of Jamaica (of course the name Kingston imposed on them by their former colonial oppressors), rather than association with Britain.