Solidigm

Interim CEO and co-CEO of SK hynix: Noh-Jung Kwak

Headquarters: San Jose, Calif.

Website: https://www.solidigm.com/

Solidigm is arguably the biggest storage startup in history. It was formed on Dec. 29, 2021 when Intel decided to sell its SSD business and certain NAND SSD-associated intellectual properties, as well as its Dalian, China-based NAND memory manufacturing facility, to South Korea-based semiconductor manufacturer SK Hynix, in a deal worth $7 billion, creating a new company called Solidigm. Solidigm this year has introduced a number of PCIe 4.0 SSD, and in August introduced what it calls the world first penta-level cell SSD which stores five bits of data per memory cell.