Who Really Invented USB Drive?

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?
Thumb drive, USB drive, memory stick: Whatever you call it, it’s the brainchild of an unsung Singapore inventor

In 2000, at a trade fair in Germany, an obscure Singapore company called Trek 2000 unveiled a solid-state memory chip encased in plastic and attached to a USB connector. The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8MB of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. It was called the ThumbDrive.