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DRAM modules, Kingston
Fountain Valley (Californie), United States33.71°N 117.95°W
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≈66% of third-party DRAM modules (2024); no. 2 at ≈5%
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About 66% of third-party DRAM modules assembled worldwide carry the Kingston brand, a 22nd consecutive year at the top. Kingston makes no chips, it buys wafers from the big three and turns them into modules, but its position as assembler makes it a chokepoint of the standard market. A downstream concentration that compounds the upstream concentration of memory.
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