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[[File:Kingston DataTraveler 110 8GB USB flash drive.jpg|thumb|right|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 drive]]s (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 alone{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}}.

== Alliance members ==
*[[Buffalo Technology]]
*[[Corsair Gaming]]
*[[Crucial Technology]]
*[[Infineon Technologies]]
*[[Kingston Technology]]
*[[Lexar Media]]
*[[Microsoft]]
*[[Phison]]
*[[PNY Technologies]]
*[[Samsung]]
*[[SimpleTech]]

==See also==
*[[Universal Serial Bus|USB]]
*[[USB flash drive]]
*[[U3 (software)|U3]] USB "smart" drives

==References==
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