I am a 90s kid and before we had USB flash drives there were CDs and floppy disks, although my 13-year-old cousin probably does not know what either of those are. USB flash drives are commonly used for the same reasons CDs and floppy disks were used for. They all store information, back up that information, as well as transfer the information and other files to a computer. The biggest difference is that USB flash drives is that they are much smaller, faster, and they carrying capacity size is over a thousands times more than its predecessors. They are also much more durable and reliable because they are singular-bodied device that is built reliably with no moving parts, rarely. Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oran Ogdan invented the USB flash drive. They were first manufactured in 1998 by the Israeli company M-Systems and patented in 1999. USB flash drives usually range from two gigabytes to over 250 gigabytes and come in a variety of styles, shapes, colors and other novelty designs. Most USB flash drives are manufactured in China, Taiwan, Japan, and/or Korea.
A USB flash drive is made of 8 internal components: the USB Standard- Male A-Plug (the metal piece we first see), a USB mass storage controller device, a NAND flash memory chip, a crystal oscillator, an LED, and a cover. Flash memory chips are made by layering alternated stacks of (conducted) polysilicon and insulated silicon dioxide. The crystal oscillator is made from quartz crystals. Natural quartz or synthetic-made quartz can be used. Quartz is commonly found all around the world. Quartz mines are largely located in North Carolina. The LED is made from inorganic semiconductor materials; these materials are usually crystalline inorganic solids. The cover, which protects t...
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... USB flash drive, mainly by design they could be assembled and manufactured by hand because this would not only decently energy efficient but more than likely cost effective. This methodology would work best for smaller production volumes. For bigger production volumes, it would be more beneficial to put an investment in machines and robots that could have the complexities that a human worker could not and supply would increase faster.
In sum, the total costs of fuel, maintenance, employment, and supply and demand overseas, and communicative costs it would be much cheaper and possibly more efficient if these small storages of information could be manufactured on US grounds, but it simply does not work that way. For now, it all depends on the manufactured quantity and how big of an impact it will have on the society, the welfare of the workers and the economy.
Storage – storage is a non-volatile disk space. A device like an external hard drive would be an example of external storage, this would normally used to store photos and any other type of information that needs to be kept long-term. Secondly you have internal storage, a computers internal storage usually houses the operating system and other software applications.
The U.S. industries have been outsourcing manufacturing for several decades now. U.S. companies thought they were reducing costs by outsourcing development, manufacturing, and process-engineering abilities. Consequently, U.S. corporations’ knowledge, skilled workers, and supply chain, which are the necessities to producing advanced products, have vanished. For example, almost all notebook computers, cell phones, and handheld devices, which were once created in the U.S., are now designed in Asia. When a major U.S. company outsource, it pressures their rivals to do the same thing. They also lose the expertise of process engineering, which would interact with manufacturing on a daily basis. Minor companies and skilled workers go to where the jobs and knowledge networks are no matter where they are geographically in the world. This decline of trade in the U.S. has caused a negative chain reaction to their suppliers of sophisticated materials, tools, production equipment, and components. U.S. industries do not have a way of coming up with new ideas for the next generation of high-tech products...
The cost advantages related to raw materials may be explained by better negotiated agreements with suppliers (perhaps due to the larger volumes of purchases – comp. Fig. 5) and possibly less shipping and distribution costs that stem from the fact that Samsung’s fab facilities are geographically collocated (while competitors’ facilities are spread world-wide). In terms of labour productivity only Chinese SMIC outperformed Samsung, but that came hardly unexpectedly: low labour costs in China had been and were to remain unbeatable for some time yet.
The United States, as well as the world, is more and more dependent on electronics. Everything around us runs on electricity; from the cars we drive, our dependency on mobile electronics we use, all the way down to the cappuccino machines that make our favorite beverages. We love our electronics. Last year alone “retail sales of consumer electronics fell just short of $1 trillion in 2011,” reports John Laposky of TWICE magazine, and those sales “are predicted to hit $1.04 trillion in 201...
Byte Products, Inc., headquartered in the midwestern United States, is regarded as one of the largest volume supplier for the production of electronic components used in personal computers. Byte Products, Inc., was a privately owned firm that has now entered to be a publicly traded company. The majority of the stockholders are the initial owners of Byte, when it was still privately owned. The products that Byte produces are primarily found in computers used for business and engineering applications. Byte Products, Inc., has been the leader in this industry for the past six year with consistent yearly revenues of 12% and total sales of approximately $265 million. Byte also has 32% of the market share.
USB ports are developed to connect keyboard, mouse, printer and many other devices to the PC. They are developed in mid1990’s and gains a tremendous success because no additional knowledge is required to install the devices. USB ports not only communicate between devices and computer but it can also supply electric power to the devices. USB ports are not only limited to computers but it can also be seen mobile phones and video games consoles. USB ports has undergone a lot of advancement since its development in 90’s. It is now available in three different speeds. They are best known for plug and play in the 20th century. It can be attached and detach from the pc without switching it off. They are standardized by group
...rd drives. The Flash memory storage is significantly smaller, has no moving parts and starts up immediately. Because these chips have a smaller storage capacity and cost more than traditional hard drives, it’s a great short term growth opportunity for Apple to do something about it. As far as long term growth for Apple, how about an iTV? There have been rumors of one in the works, but with the 2013 Christmas season in the past, the tech industry is anxiously awaiting for any sign of this becoming reality.
...ne computer to another over the Internet will be around $25 billion nationwide throughout the next 25 years. Hardware and software expenses are to be expected to be minor for most Internet users, as knowledge changes will be deployed in products like Microsoft Windows and the Linux User System. This is not for a single business, this is a estimated price nationwide.
There per 1947, when the transistor was invented, and when Jaquard (1804) designed a loom that performed predefined tasks through feeding punched cards into a reading contraption; nobody imagined how quickly that it would take to get the nowadays supercomputers. Resources http://www.thocp.net/software/software_reference/introduction_to_software_history.htm http://www.softwarehistory.org/index.html http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm http://www.libredebate.com/doc/doc199911070002.html http://www.elrinconcito.com/articulos/cibernetica/cibernetica.htm http://www.salon.com/tech/special/opensource/ http://www.ciberperiodismo.net/gorka/noticias/63/notiimpr
Over the past six years, increases in yearly revenues have consistently reached 12%. Byte Products, Inc., headquartered in the midwestern United States, is one of the largest suppliers of electronic components and is considered to be the industry leader, with some 32% market share. Unfortunately for Byte, numerous companies have entered the market; both domestic and foreign. The high demand from consumers and the high profit margins are the reason behind the competitive firms going into the market.
That's important given its cost and the length of time many buyers or businesses are likely to keep it in use.
A Peripheral device is any external device attached to a computer. Without Peripherals a computer is just a box full of wires, transistors and circuits, which is able to: - 1. Respond to a specific set of instructions in a well-defined manner. 2. Execute a prerecorded list of instructions (a program). The only problem being that without any input Peripherals you cannot tell the computer to do any of the above processes, and if you could, without an output device of some kind, the computer has no way of delivering the result to the user! Examples of peripherals include printers, disk drives, display monitors, keyboards, and mice etc. These can be separated into two categories: - Input devices An input device is any machine that feeds data into a computer. For example, a keyboard is an input device. Input devices other than the keyboard are sometimes called alternate input devices. Mice, trackballs, and light pens are all alternate input devices. Output devices An output device is any machine capable of representing information from a computer. This includes display screens, printers, plotters, and synthesizers. C.P.U. Central Processing Unit Fig One Section One -- Developments in Peripherals in the Last Few Years There have been many advances in the field of Peripherals over the last few years. Even the humble keyboard and mouse have been re-invented to produce the Ergonomic keyboard and the cordless and laser mouse. There have also been advances in monitors such as flat screen displays and LCD screens. But there have also been advances in technology, which although not new, have been made commercially available for home use such as the digital camera, scanners, digital video camera and the colour printer. To look at some of the advances in detail we should put them into their categories. Output Devices Printers Printers have developed from the daisy wheel printer to the thermal printers of today. Other advancement in printers have been the laser printer (Same technology as photocopiers), which is used commonly in offices as it produces very high quality text and graphics. I general the Printer has developed in four areas. It has made improvements in the quality of type, the speed in which it can print, the quality of graphics and the number of fonts now available. Monitor (Display Screen) Monitors a few years ago were usually monochrome, displaying only two colours.
Losing your memories and files can be heart wrenching to encounter. Most of the time, those memories are loss forever. Some people have the most important events saved to their computer. In some cases, many individuals have their wedding photos, videos of their child’s first steps or first words, all saved to their hard drive. Parting with theses precious mementos can be hard to deal with. However, with the invention of backup devices, you no longer have to part ways with your precious videos, pictures or files. Theses items can be saved stored directly on the device and put away for safekeeping. This is very beneficial to have, in case you...
...need to think the ways to overcome the problems that exist while establish preservation for digital information or materials. The main problems that should be overcome are technology and cost problem. That’s problem related each other because in order to preserve digital materials, they need to use technology and assure need expert people to manage technology that they use and the cost will high.
There are several different storage devices that can be used to store your data. These are the magnetic storage, optical storage, and solid state storage. According to Parsons and Oja (2014), “a magnetic storage devices stores the data by magnetizing microscopic particles on a disk or tape surface” (p