Product Picture Other Product Picture Product Detail Information At the Forefront of Memory: The History of Kingston Kingston Technology grew out of a severe shortage of surface-mount memory chips in the high-tech marketplace in the 1980s. John Tu and David Sun were determined to find a solution. They put their engineering expertise to work and designed a new Single In-Line Memory Module (SIMM) that used readily available, older technology through-hole components. A new industry standard was born ¡ª and, on October 17, 1987, so was Kingston Technology.