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Silicon Motion designs the chips that control how data gets stored and retrieved on solid-state drives (SSDs), which are the fast storage devices used in computers, phones, and data centers instead of old-fashioned spinning hard drives. Their controllers manage NAND flash memory, the type of storage that keeps data even when the power is off. They make controllers for computers and laptops, for massive data centers that power cloud services, for smartphones and other mobile devices, and for specialized uses like cars and industrial equipment. The company sells these chips to the manufacturers…