Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, SST designs, manufactures and markets a diversified range of memory and non-memory products for high-volume applications in the digital consumer, networking, wireless communications and Internet computing markets. Leveraging its proprietary, patented SuperFlash technology, SST is a leading provider of nonvolatile memory solutions with product families that include various densities of high functionality flash memory components and flash mass storage products. The company also offers its SuperFlash technology for embedded applications through its broad network of world-class manufacturing partners and technology licensees, including TSMC, which offers it under its trademark Emb-FLASH. SST’s non-memory products include NAND controller-based products, smart card ICs and modules, flash microcontrollers and radio frequency ICs and modules. Further information on SST can be found on the company's Web site at http://www.sst.com
SST’s Theseus Titanium family of smart card ICs has been designed to address the needs of SIM and U-SIM cards for mobile telecommunications. These devices are cost-effective platforms for delivering secure authentication of network subscribers. While targeting the SIM card market, Theseus Titanium products remain flexible and secure for use in any smart card application. The Theseus Titanium family introduced the concept of User-Configurable Memory (UCM), a fast and flexible nonvolatile memory, which simplifies smart card software development. UCM provides a single flash memory page size over the entire range of available memory, which gives the smart card software complete control over the memory assets. UCM also eliminates barriers to software flexibility by allowing the software to free unused resources to the end user. Any physical memory which is not used for operating system code can be used as application and data space. With other smart card platforms, different physical memory types force the system software into fixed boundaries. These permanent boundaries limit the capabilities of what the smart card software can do.