Flash Memory
Key Points Flash drives are the brainchild of Toshiba engineer Fujio Masuoka, who discovered how to harness the technology they rely on in 1980.Flash drives rely on floating gate transistor technology which has been around for over six decades.The two types of flash memory are NAND and NOR, both produced by the team at Toshiba within the space of four years. Many computer users have discovered the convenience of carrying a flash memory drive on a keychain....