Who is the Inventor or Founder of Pen Drive?

Do you own a pen drive? How many do you have it? i have few but i still don’t have enuff of it..

I have it from start from 512kb to 1GB to 2GB to 4gb to 8gb and until today i have 16GB

512kb & 1GB – year 2005 (2 unit)

2GB                  – year 2006 (2 unit)

4GB                  – year 2009 (1 unit)

8GB                  – year 2010 (1 unit)

As dated today, i only used 8GB & 16GB.

Last Sunday, when i back home, my parents is watching chinese Discovery Channel? My mom said.. hey this is your aunty’s son?  in hokkien, (Lau Ko’s son in sekinchan?, do you remember him?   seriously i didn’t know that…  it was like ages ago and i know i use to go there with my cousin in paddy field in Sekinchan during Chinese New Year.

I didn’t know my mom know what is pen drive?  she even said.. everybody at this ages should have one!  was so surprise with her.. i didn’t watch that show because i saw the creator face is like very nerd…. and i stop it and go back to my room and watch my own movie.

I have been working in so called company Hymux selling OEM pen drive but i didn’t know who is the inventor? it was boom on the year 2006 , and like the usb drive is selling very expensive and it a must gadget for dont’ know what purpose.. just to install rubbish in your pen drive..  That was the time.. I learn how to blog, and all the gadget stuff..  and also i know my colleague VT9H.

Who is the inventor of pen drive ?

Name: Pua Khein Seng
Hometown: Sekinchan, Selangor
Education: SJKC Yeok Kuan, Sekinchan; Pin Hwa Independent school, Klang; Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Occupation: Engineer/ president of Phison Electonics Corp
Current base: Taipei, Taiwan

WHEN he set off for Taiwan in 1993, Pua Khein Seng’s only aim was to complete his degree in Electrical Control Engineering at the renowned Chiao Tung University and return home to work in Malaysia .

Never did he envision himself heading a multi-million dollar Taiwanese company that developed the world’s first USB flash removable disk, which they called Pen Drive .

Pua Khein Seng went to Taiwan to get his engineering degree but ended up staying on, starting his own company and inventing the pen drive.

“I went to Taiwan to pursue my undergraduate degree. I chose Taiwan only because it was too expensive to study either in the United States or Singapore .

“However, I did well in my undergraduate programme and was offered a place to do my masters,” explained Pua, who was back in Kuala Lumpur recently for a holiday.

After completing his Masters in July 1999, Pua worked for about six months in a local company before deciding to set up his own venture company with four fellow engineers who had studied with him at Chiao Tung.

“We were confident that we had the know-how and ability to start our own business, which is focused on USB technology. The company is called Phison because there are five of us – two Malaysians and three Taiwanese engineers,” said Pua, 31, who hails from Sekinchan, Selangor.

Phison Electronics Corporation was set up in November 2000 and within six months the young entrepreneurs came up with their first invention – a USB storage device called Pen Drive .

“We were the first company in the world to develop the USB Drive SoC (System On Chip) and we were very confident that the market for USB will be huge. At the time, no one believed in us so we had to do everything ourselves – from developing the technology, the chips to the product itself.

“We were only 27 at the time and inexperienced. But we were confident that we could design good systems and chips but we didn’t know anything about selling. So, we sought partners or traders who could help sell our products for us,” Pua added.

Through smart partnerships and shrewd strategies, Phison soon made its way into European, American and Japanese markets. One quick move was securing Japanese tech giant Toshiba as Phison’s largest shareholder and customer.

“We launched Pen Drive in June 2001 and by August the same year, we broke even! From September 2001, we were reaping monthly profits from our invention and there has been no turning back since.”

The man who invented USB pen-drive is a young modest Malaysian who can’t even get into a local University but invented the most versatile, indispensable computer peripheral today. And helped his adopted country, Taiwan made $31bil in the process. The rest is history….