Kingston was established in the 1987s as a result of severe shortage of surface-mount memory chips in the high-tech marketplace. The founders of the company, John Tu and David Sun saw this opportunity and took advantage of it. The men established a company that was different from any memory manufacturer on the market because all of their products are 100-percent testing made, making them the most reliable manufacturer on the market. Kingston first reached sales of over one billion dollars in 1995 and has continued to grow ever since. Today Kingston is the largest independent manufacturer of memory enhancement products. Kingston offers over 2,000 products that support over 20,000 systems. The company controls nearly 50% of the market for DRAM manufacturing. Kingston is headquartered in Fountain Valley, California and has operations throughout the world. Kingston has four manufacturing facilities strategically placed worldwide to meet the demands of the memory market on a global scale. Kingston’s product lines are memory, SSD, USB drivers, flash cards, and wireless components. With the shrinking PC business, Kingston has been under pressure to adapt to the market, but has continue to grow. In 2013, Kingston launched the MobileLite Wireless reader line, a line of storage products for smartphones and tablets.