PDP Systems was founded in 1985 and named after its founders Paul Jones, Doug Diggs and Phil Young. Jones, Diggs, and Young were high school classmates at Awalt High School in
Mountain View, CA. Jones and Young went on to
UC Davis, while Diggs graduated from the
University of California at Los Angeles. PDP Systems started during Jones's time as a student at
UC Davis as an OEM builder of computer memory chips into DRAM modules for many of the major PC manufacturers. Starting in 2003 PDP Systems released their own branded Patriot Memory line of
DDR SDRAM to be sold in the retail and online market. Unlike the SDRAM manufacturers that released their SDRAM as bare modules, the Patriot Memory modules featured a bladed metal heat shielding across the entire DDR module. Patriot Memory continued the use of full module heat sinks across each generation of DDR generations to include DDR4. The Patriot Memory brand eventually became the company name. Patriot Memory has two assembly lines at their facilities in
Fremont, California, and
Taipei,
Taiwan. Jones credits keeping manufacturing in the US as a result of having highly automated machines and reduced shipping costs. Patriot continues to evolve their "VIPER" brand of memory modules, accessories (keyboards, mice, headsets, headset stands, mousepads, and USB flash drives), and "BURST" solid state drives. ==References==