USB Flash Drive Alliance
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A Kingston USB pen drive.
The 'USB Flash Drive Alliance', founded in December 2003 by Samsung, Lexar Media, Kingston Technology and others, is a group of companies promoting the use of USB flash drives (also called "keydrives"[1] and a variety of other names).
In 2003, according to the alliance, 50 million USB flash drives were sold in the US alone.
Alliance members
See also
- USB
- USB flash drive
- U3 USB "smart" drives
References
- ↑ "Keydrives." American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2011. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 3 Dec. 2015 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Keydrives
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