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Flash Memory Summit Celebrates 35 Years of NAND Flash Memory Innovation

Remember floppy disks and Zip drives? Now terabytes of storage can be held in the palm of your hand, and smartphones have more storage than a laptop from not long ago. These incredible advances are thanks to NAND Flash memory, an indispensable technology that is 35 years old this year. Without KIOXIA’s invention of NAND, and the subsequent innovations by industry leaders including Samsung, Western Digital, SK hynix, as well as KIOXIA, today’s handheld technology and a huge portion of cloud-based data would not have been possible today – and was barely conceivable 35 years ago in 1987. Flash Memory ... Read more