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" and a variety of other names).<ref>"Keydrives." American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2011. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 3 Dec. 2015 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Keydrives</ref>

In 2003, according to the alliance, 50 million USB flash drives were sold in the US aloneTemplate: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

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