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title: "USB Flash Drive Alliance"
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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).
In 2003, according to the alliance, 50 million USB flash drives were sold in the US alone.


== 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 ==