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)."Keydrives." American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2011. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 3 Dec. 2015 http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Keydrives

In 2003, according to the alliance, 50 million USB flash drives were sold in the US alone{{Citation needed|date=May 2008}}.