USB Flash Drive Alliance

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