Silicon Motion Technology Corporation was formed as the combination of Silicon Motion, Inc., which was established in 1995 in Silicon Valley in the United States, and Feiya Technology Corporation, which was founded in 1997 in Taipei, Taiwan.
The company develops NAND flash controller integrated circuits, AKA ICs, for solid-state storage devices. The company states that it supplies more NAND flash controllers than any other company in the world with over five billion sold between 2006 through 2016.
These components are found in commercial, enterprise, and industrial applications ranging from SSDs, eMMCs, memory cards, and USB flash drives.
In December 2016 the company received “2016 Best Financially Managed Company” presented by the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA).
Silicon Motion Technology is publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol SIMO.
Silicon Motion Technology maintains a corporate office in the United States in New York, New York.
