According to industry sources, Kingston is preparing to participate in JMicron Private Equity to further control SSD controller resources. JMicron will hold a special investor meeting on the 25th of this month to discuss the use of private equity to raise new funds. If Kingston's proposal is approved, large memory companies will gain considerable power in the field of SSD controllers. JMicron had planned to introduce investment from Toshiba, but gave up because of concerns about the impact of cooperation with other flash chip suppliers.

After entering 2010, Kingston began to gradually work hard in the field of solid-state drives, initially gaining a foothold through low-cost entry-level SSD products, and later gradually expanded its product line, introducing a mainstream version of the 64-512GB model. In the second half of 2010, Kingston started to adopt JMicron's controllers on a large scale, and the cooperation between the two parties has also gradually improved.

Industry sources estimate that the shipments of JMicron SSD controllers will exceed 1 million in 2010, and Kingston will eat more than 30% of them.

It is worth mentioning that Kingston also had stakes in chip design vendors such as Phison Electronics, Skymedi, and Solid State System/3S, and at the end of 2010, it was with Phison. Joint Venture established Kingston Electronics, specializing in eMMC solutions. JMicron is part of the UMC Group. The leader, Cai Ming Jie, is the chairman of MediaTek.