WAITANSSD COMPANY |
Waitan[ pronounced "why-tan" ] designs and manufactures rugged solidstate
drives and SSD processors for military, defense, aerospaceand
industrial applications. It was founded by a team of SSDindustry
veterans from Mtron and SuperTalent, both of which arerecognized as
the industrial pioneers and enablers of SSDcontrollers and solid
state drives.
We are a global organization with design teams and marketingteam
members in Silicon Valley and Asia. The members of ourtechnical
team come from Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco andIBM and bring
to Waitan over 100 years of design andmanufacturing experience with
ruggedized electronics andsystems, as well as strict quality
control and management atISO9001 certified manufacturing facility.
Waitan is named after the legendary Shanghai Bund [spelled as "Waitan" in
ChinesePinyin]. The Bund is a waterfront area in central
Shanghai,shown in the picture above. The Bund lies on a section of
East-1 Zhongshan Road, which runs along the western bank of the
HuangpuRiver. In 1930s, the Shanghai Bund had dozens of
historicalbuildings lining the Huangpu River that once housed
numerousbanks and trading houses from the United Kingdom, France,
theUnited States, Italy, Russia, Germany, Japan, the Netherlandsand
Belgium, as well as the consulates of Russia and Britain,the
Shanghai Club and the Masonic Club. It was initially aBritish
settlement; later the British and American settlementswere combined
in the International Settlement. Magnificentcommercial buildings in
the Beaux Arts style sprung up in theyears around the turn of the
20th century as the Bund developedinto a major financial center of
East Asia.