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JMicron Technology Corporation
智微科技
Company typePublic
GTSM: 4925
IndustrySemiconductors
FoundedSeptember 2001; 23 years ago (2001-09)
Headquarters
Hsinchu
,
Taiwan
Key people
Tim Liu (Chairman)
Tim Liu (President)
ProductsIntegrated circuits, bridge controllers
Websitewww.jmicron.com

JMicron Technology Corporation (Chinese: 智微科技; pinyin: Zhìwēi Kējì) is a Taiwanese fabless technology design house based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. As a manufacturer of integrated circuits, they produce controller chips for bridge devices.[1]

History

  • 2019 Western Digital (WD) and our company successfully demonstrated the world's first USB to SD7.x card reader solution
  • 2019 Established JMicron Technology (Shenzhen) Ltd. to provide speedy and local service for the customers in China
  • 2019 Announced TCG encryption supported hard drive and encrypted solid state drive solutions
  • 2018 USB 3.2 Gen2 to SATA 6Gb/s (JMS580) bridge controller chip is USB-IF Association certified and went into mass produced
  • 2018 USB 3.2 Gen2 to PCIe / NVMe (JMS583) bridge controller chip in mass production
  • 2018 PCIe Gen3 to 5x SATA 6Gb/s interface expansion controller chip in mass production
  • 2018 USB 3.2 Gen1 to UFS + UHS-I bridge controller chip in mass production
  • 2017 Invested in KaiKuTek Inc.
  • 2017 USB 3.2 Gen2 high-speed transmission technology in mass production
  • 2016 JMicron Technology Corp designated Maxio Technology as the next generation SSD R&D center. JMicron will no longer develop any SSD products in the future, and R & D manpower will focus on the current main products
  • 2016 Liquidation of subsidiary - JMicron USA Technology Corp
  • 2016 All the equity of the branch company Maxio Technology
  • 2016 Liquidation of JMicron IC Design (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
  • 2016 JMS576 Type-C bridge controller went into mass production
  • 2016 The annual shipment of USB peripheral bridge chip series reaches 40 million pieces, an all-time high
  • 2015 Successfully developed JMF60F (non-DRAM SSD Controller) chip
  • 2015 The JMF670H controller chip is successfully adapted by the first-tier system and module manufacturers
  • 2015 Successfully developed the JMS579 series controller chip and was adapted by the first-tier hard drive manufacturer
  • 2015 Invested in Maxio Technology
  • 2014 Established a local branch, JMicron IC Design (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd., to provide speedy and local service for the customers in China
  • 2014 JMF667 has received outstanding reviews from world-renowned professional SSD review websites: AnandTech, SSD Review and TweakTown
  • 2014 Shipped over 5 million pcs of SSD controller chips, an all-time high
  • 2013 Successfully developed JMB575 (1: 5 SATA 6Gbps port multiplier / port selector) controller chip
  • 2012 Successfully developed JMF667 (4 Channel SSD Controller) controller chip
  • 2011 Successfully developed NAS (LAN Disk Controller) controller chip
  • 2011 Won the 2009 Asian Science Park Association Outstanding Enterprise Award (Excellence Prize)
  • 2011 The Company went public on December 29, 1998
  • 2010 Successfully developed USB3.0 to 2 ports SATA II controller chip
  • 2010 Successfully developed the world's first USB3.0 card reader to support the SDA3.0 specification controller chip
  • 2010 Won ASUS Computer's Best Partner Award
  • 2010 Listed as Emerging Stock Board company on Taipei Exchange (GTSM) on October 28, 1999
  • 2009 Successfully developed the world's first two-in-one controller chip for Ethernet and card reader
  • 2009 Successfully developed the world's first PCIe interface card reader supporting SDA3.0 specification controller chip
  • 2009 Won the Innovative Product Award of the Hsinchu Science Park in 1998 (JMF612 Ultra High Speed Solid State Drive Controller)
  • 2008 Exhibited a series of SSD (Solid State Disk), eSATA, RAID, GbE (Giga bit Ethernet) and PCI Express application controller chips during Computex Taipei 2008
  • 2008 Authorized by ARM to develop external storage and embedded systems. Our company is authorized by ARM926EJ-S ™ and ARM968E-S ™ processors to develop ICs for external storage and embedded systems
  • 2008 Successfully developed the world's first SATA II and USB Combo interface SSD controller chip
  • 2007 Successfully developed the world's first PCIe-to-1394 / card reader controller chip for notebook computers
  • 2007 Successfully developed the world's first PCIe-to-PATA controller chip for motherboards
  • 2006 Exhibited a series of bridge chips integrated with USB 2.0, Serial ATA and Parallel ATA interfaces, and PCI Express to SATA II controller in the IC application area of Taipei World Trade Center Hall 3 during Computex Taipei 2006
  • 2006 Successfully developed the world's first PCIe-to-SATA II bridge chip to be used on a motherboard
  • 2006 Promoted eSATA solutions for motherboards and laptops
  • 2006 Our USB OTG physical layer, in collaboration with Poland, passed the USB-IF compatibility test. The USB OTG controller that passed the compatibility test this time is provided by Poland's Evatronix SA and is a feature of our physical layer technology integration.
  • 2006 Granted 15.75 million NTD subsidies by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan for encouraging the prospective application for the SATA 6Gbps Port-Multiplier
  • 2005 UMC and our company successfully developed 0.13 micron Serial ATA II (3.0 Gbps) physical layer technology, and completed development and verification
  • 2005 Leading manufacturer of core logic chipsets - SiS'new generation of Southbridge chips has passed the our company's PCI Express compliance test. SiS announced that it has completed our PCI Express interface compatibility test for their new generation of Southbridge chips of SiS965, SiS965L, SiS966 and SiS966L
  • 2005 Successfully developed the world's first USB-to-SATA / PATA bridge chip
  • 2004 Completed ISO 9001: 2000 counseling and verification
  • 2004 Successfully developed SATA II PHY technology and granted intellectual property rights to IDM factory in Japan
  • 2004 Successfully developed Taiwan's first SATA-to-PATA bridge chip
  • 2003 Company moved to Hsinchu Science Park
  • 2003 Awarded 3 million NTD by Hsinchu Science Park Bureau, ministry of science and technology's innovative technology R&D program for 3.0 Gbps Serial ATA physical layer chip
  • 2001 Company founded

Products

USB Bridge controller

USB-mulit-interfaces

  • JMS581: USB3.2 Gen2x1 to SD7.x / PCIe / SATA

USB-UFS[2]

  • JMS901: USB 3.2 Gen1 to UFS 2.1/ UHS-1

USB-SATA[3]

  • JMS591: USB3.2 Gen2x2 to 5x SATA 6Gb/s (RAID 0/1/5/10/JBOD)
  • JMS580: USB 3.2 Gen2 to SATA 6Gb/s
  • JMS578: USB 3.0 to SATA 6Gb/s
  • JMS576: USB 3.2 Gen1 to SATA 6Gb/s
  • JMS562: USB 3.0 & eSATA 6Gb/s to Dual SATA 6Gb/s (RAID 0/1/JBOD)
  • JMS561U: USB 3.0 to Dual SATA 6Gb/s (CLONE)
  • JMS561: USB 3.0 to Dual SATA 6Gb/s (RAID 0/1/JBOD)
  • JM20337: USB 2.0 to SATA/PATA
  • JM20329: USB 2.0 to SATA

USB-PCIe[4]

  • JMS586: USB 3.2 Gen2x2 to PCIe/NVMe Gen3x4
  • JMS583: USB 3.2 Gen2 to PCIe/NVMe Gen3x2


PCIe Bridge Controller

PCIe-SATA[5]

  • JMB585: PCIe Gen3x2 to 5x SATA 6Gb/s
  • JMB582: PCIe Gen3x1 to 2x SATA 6Gb/s


SATA Bridge Controller

SATA-SATA[6]

  • JMB575: 1 to 5-port SATA 6Gb/s Port Multiplier or 5 to 1-port SATA 6Gb/s Port Selector
  • JMB572: 1 to 2-port SATA 6Gb/s Port Multiplier or 2 to 1-port SATA 6Gb/s Port Selector
  • JMB394: 1 to 5-port SATA 3Gb/s Port Multiplier (RAID 0/1/5/10/JBOD / CLONE with LCM interfaces)
  • JMB393: 1 to 5-port SATA 3Gb/s Port Multiplier (RAID 0/1/5/10/JBOD/CLONE)
  • JMB391: 1 to 5-ports SATA 3Gb/s Port Multiplier (RAID 0/1/10/JBOD)
  • JMB390: 1 to 2-port SATA 3Gb/s Port Multiplier (RAID 0/1/JBOD)

SATA-PATA[7]

  • JMD330: SATA to PATA
  • JMH330/S: PATA to SATA

Product Solution

External Storage

USB Based

Single Bay

  • External USB DAS
  • USB Enclosure

Portable SSD

  • Smart TV storage devices
  • Gaming console storage devices
  • Window-to-go applications

Dual-/Multi-Bays

  • NAS
  • Personal Cloud Storage
  • Hyper Backup
  • Active Backup
  • Cloud Station Backup
  • Duplicator

SATA Based

Port Multiplier Application

  • Surveillance storage
  • Set-top-boxes
  • Media players
  • NAS products
  • Embedded system
  • PC/NB

RAID Controller Application

  • NAS having RAID storage devices
  • video surveillance systems
  • HDD Duplicators
  • RAID box

2:1 or 5:1 Port Selector

  • NAS
  • Personal Cloud Storage
  • Hyper Backup
  • Active Backup
  • Cloud Station Backup
  • Embedded system

UFS Based

Widely adoption of UFS in external/embedded storage

  • UFS/SD combo card reader
  • Ultra-High speed UFS-based thumb-drive

UFS-Based Portable SSD

  • UFS programmer machine
  • Surveillance IP Cam
  • AR/VR Headset

HDD Duplicator

  • HDD formatting
  • HDD sanitizers
  • Docking station

Surveillance Storage

DVR/NVR

Surveillance Storage

  • Smart camera
  • IP camera
  • Video display devices

Affiliated Enterprises and Subsidiaries

References

  1. ^ JMicron's solution/product list
  2. ^ Products_USB to UFS
  3. ^ Products_USB to SATA
  4. ^ Products_USB to PCIe
  5. ^ Products_PCIe to SATA
  6. ^ Products_SATA to SATA
  7. ^ Products_STAT to PATA


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