Link A Media

aid: link-a-media
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/link-a-media.png
name: Link A Media
description: 'Link_A_Media Devices (LAMD) was a privately-held fabless semiconductor company founded in March 2004 by storage
  industry veterans and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It built signal-processing and data-recovery technology
  — read channels, error correction and System-on-Chip blocks — that storage OEMs combined with their own proprietary logic
  to build custom controller SoCs for hard disk drives and NAND flash. Its product lines were MagLINK (magnetic/HDD) and FlashLINK
  (NAND/SSD), sold as IP and silicon to drive manufacturers rather than as a developer-facing service. The company targeted
  higher areal density, lower cost per gigabyte, improved drive robustness and higher manufacturing yields. LAMD is no longer
  an operating independent company: its website was live through January 2013 and the domain is today a parked for-sale listing.
  It never published a public API, developer portal, or SDK, so there is no API surface for the API Evangelist enrichment
  pipeline to capture.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/link-a-media/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: It never published a public API, developer portal, or SDK, so there is no API surface for the API Evangelist
  enrichment pipeline to capture.
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-status-evidence: linkamedia.com served the company site continuously in the Internet Archive through 2013-01-14, then has
  no captures until 2024-08-08 (301) and today resolves to an abovedomains.com parked for-sale page (HTTP 200, probed 2026-07-19).
  Related domains lamd.com (afternic lander) and link-a-media.com (sedoparking) are likewise parked. No live company, developer,
  or API surface exists.
x-enrichment-verdict: Enrichment attempted 2026-07-19 and correctly produced no API artifacts. This company predates and sits
  outside the API economy — it sold storage controller IP and silicon to OEMs. Do not re-run the enrichment pipeline against
  this slug; there is nothing to find. Retain as a historical portfolio-graph node only.
x-identity-source: http://web.archive.org/web/20120615081940/http://www.linkamedia.com/about.html (first-party About Us page,
  captured 2012-06-15)
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Semiconductors
- Storage
- Solid State Drives
- Hard Disk Drives
- NAND Flash
- System on Chip
- Signal Processing
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence