what is flash memory?

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Flash memory is any hard memory (chip) that can be erased and written to and retains the information when not powered.

Things that are termed flash memory can inclued, USB Memory Sticks, Memory cards for phones cameras etc.

The old term for it is EPROM Erasable Programmable Memory, commonly used in all computers to hold the BIOS information. This BIOS could be FLASHED to update it. Hence the common term now Flash Memory.
 
Flash memory is a non-volatile computer memory that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed. It is a technology that is primarily used in memory cards and USB flash drives for general storage and transfer of data between computers and other digital products. It is a specific type of EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) that is erased and programmed in large blocks; in early flash the entire chip had to be erased at once
 
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