List of flash memory controller manufacturers
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This is a list of manufacturers of flash memory controllers for various flash memory devices like SSDs, USB flash drives, SD cards, and CompactFlash cards.
List
| Name | Based in | Status | Manufactures NVMe Controllers |
Manufactures SATA Controllers |
Manufactures CF & SD Controllers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fusion-io[1] Acquired by SanDisk then Western Digital |
United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Greenliant Systems[2] | United States | Independent | No | Yes | Yes |
| Hyperstone[3] | Germany | Independent | No | Yes | Yes |
| Indilinx[4] Acquired by Toshiba then Kioxia |
South Korea | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
| Intel[5] | United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
| IntelliProp[6] | United States | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
| InnoGrit[7] | China | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JMicron, spun off into Maxiotek[8][9] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Marvell[10] | United States | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
| Maxio[11] | China | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
| Micron | United States | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Novachips[12] | South Korea | Independent | Yes | Yes | No |
| Phison[13] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Realtek[14][15][16] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | N/a |
| Samsung[17] | South Korea | Captive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SK Hynix | South Korea | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
| SandForce[18] Acquired by Seagate Technology |
United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
| Silicon Motion[19] | Taiwan | Independent | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Starblaze[20] | China | Independent | Yes | No | No |
| sTec[21] Acquired by HGST then Western Digital |
United States | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
| Kioxia[22] Spun off from Toshiba |
Japan | Captive | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VIA Technologies[23] | Taiwan | Captive | Yes | Yes | No |
| FADU[24] | South Korea | Captive | Yes | No | No |
| Kraftway[25] | Russia | Independent | Yes | No | No |
| DSOL | Russia | Independent | No | Yes | No |
Note: Independent=sells to any 3rd party; Captive=only used for their own products
Largest NAND flash memory manufacturers
The following were the largest NAND flash memory manufacturers, as of the third quarter of 2025.[26]
- Samsung Electronics – 30%
- SK Hynix – 20%
- Kioxia – 14%
- Micron Technology – 13%
- YMTC – 13%
- Western Digital Corporation – 11%
Note: SK Hynix acquired Intel's NAND business at the end of 2021[27] Kioxia spun out and got renamed of Toshiba in 2018/2019.[28]
Samsung remains the largest NAND flash memory manufacturer as of third quarter 2025.