USB Flash Drive Alliance

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" and a variety of other names).[1]

In 2003, according to the alliance, 50 million USB flash drives were sold in the US alone[citation needed].

Alliance members

  • Buffalo Technology
  • Corsair Gaming
  • Crucial Technology
  • Infineon Technologies
  • Kingston Technology
  • Lexar Media
  • Microsoft
  • Phison
  • PNY Technologies
  • Samsung
  • SimpleTech

See also

  • USB
  • USB flash drive
  • U3 USB "smart" drives

References

  1. ^ "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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