Corsair has come a long way from making L2 cache-on-a-stick modules back in 1994, and the company has even bigger plans for the future, including extensions to their existing product categories, a pending IPO, and a brand new software layer of integration across all their component-based and audio products.
The beginning of the company’s presentation gave PC nerds like us a nice walk down memory lane, as Corsair talked through the evolution of the company. Once Intel started dropping L2 cache into its own CPUs in 1996, Corsair switched to DRAM add-in products, and you know the rest. Performance DRAM. Water cooling. Blinky lights. Flash Voyager. LED Display DRAM. Power supplies. Solid State Drives. Cases. Etc.
Corsair made it clear that it remains devoted to the performance and val-performance memory categories—one of the presentation’s slides indicated that the company’s Vengeance memory will be fully forward-compatible with Sandy Bridge Core i5 and i7 parts, as well as SSDs, with support for native SATA 6 gbps and 480 read/320 write and rapid TRIM garbage collection. The company has split its product divisions into two to allow it to focus on memory while a components division focuses on cases, cooling, and the audio products detailed below.
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