USB Flash Drive Alliance
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" and a variety of other names).[1]
A Kingston USB pen drive.
In 2003, according to the alliance, 50 million USB flash drives were sold in the US alone.
Alliance members
- Buffalo Technology
- Corsair Memory
- Crucial Technology
- Infineon Technologies
- Kingston Technology
- Lexar Media
- Microsoft
- Phison
- PNY Technologies
- Samsung
- SimpleTech
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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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