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| Company type | Public (LSE: OCZ) (Delisted) |
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| Industry | Computer |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Founders | Art Armagast and Ryan Peterson |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Ryan Petersen (CEO) and Alex Mei (VP Marketing) |
| Products | RAM, Neural Impulse Actuator, Power supply units, Flash memory, Solid-state drive, Graphics cards |
Number of employees | (200) |
| Website | www.ocztechnology.com |
OCZ Technology is a manufacturer of computer hardware based in Sunnyvale, California, USA. Since entering the memory market in 2000, OCZ has targeted its products primarily at the computer hardware enthusiast market. In addition to its memory business, OCZ sells the Neural Impulse Actuator (a brain-computer interface), DIY laptops (including a DIY netbook), and various computer components. OCZ is best known for their watercooling, aircooling or heatpipe RAM lineup solutions and their power supplies.
Products
Memory
OCZ has manufactured DDR memory at speeds that range from PC-2100 to PC-5000 (Platinum DFI Special) in various series that range from a value series targeted at the average home computer user to their titanium series designed for high performance server computers. OCZ has also made DDR RAM upgrade modules designed for the Apple Macintosh.
In 2006 they began to offer many different lines of DDR2 memory. These lines include a value series, gold series, platinum series, titanium series, performance series, and a limited edition series. The value series, gold series, and platinum series are targeted at home desktop users who are looking to build a new computer, or upgrade. The Titanium series lineup are designed for high performance server computers like the previous DDR Titanium series lineup. The limited edition series consists of memory that is targeted to home computer enthusiasts. This line includes overclocked memory with OEM water cooling heat sinks or custom painted heat spreaders. They have also manufactured some flash memory devices, such as Secure Digital cards, larger USB flash drives and Solid-state drive.
Brain-computer Interface
OCZ also produces the NIA Neural Impulse Actuator, for controlling PC games with your mind and facial expressions. It is based on an EEG with 3 electrodes on the front of a headband.
Power Supplies
OCZ has manufactured various lines of PSUs, the three most popular being their ProXStream, the GameXStream, and their PowerStream. The ProXStream and the GameXStream were some of the first power supplies available in a 1 kilowatt power rating, right behind PC Power and Cooling which OCZ acquired on May 25, 2007.
Video Cards
For about a year, OCZ had an NVIDIA GPU based, GeForce 3-series graphics card lineup, but backed out of the market in 2001. However, in early 2007 they introduced the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 based DirectX 10 graphics cards.
Solid State Drives
OCZ has a wide range of SSD (Solid State Drives) designed for consumers and enterprise customers. The majority of OCZ's drives are designed for PC consumers but they do offer Mac edition SSD's. OCZ's top selling series of SSD drives are the Vertex series which has received numerous positive reviews from the press including AnandTech [1]. At Cebit 2009 OCZ showed a prototype of an upcoming PCI-e SSD called the Z-Drive which is designed to be a premium enthusiast SSD solution.
Notebooks
OCZ has its own brand of notebooks, which are market to both end-users and OEMs. These include Do-It-Yourself notebooks which are designed to be easy to integrate and come with a DIY manual. Customers can add a CPU, memory, and a hard drive or SSD.
Corporate Information
OCZ maintains satellite offices in The Netherlands, Canada, Brazil as well as R&D facilities in Taiwan. OCZ Technology went public in June 2006 on London Stock Exchange AIM Market with the ticker symbol "OCZ". However, in early March 2009 the company announced their intent to delist from the LSE, in order to pursue a listing on an American stock exchange (most probably NASDAQ). The already poorly performing stock plunged 50% following the announcement of intent to delist.[2]