M-Systems did not produce the Flash memory used in their devices.

The key advances were first made by a small Israeli company called M-Systems.

He was founder and chairman of M-Systems.

IBM partnered with M-Systems to bring the product to market.

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This included an investment by Toshiba in M-Systems.

Toshiba agreed to supply a specific portion of its Flash memory capacity to M-Systems in 2003.

Ultimately M-Systems was acquired by SanDisk for an all stock transaction worth $1.55 billion.

In 1995, M-Systems introduced flash-based solid-state drives.

Scarcely three months later, SanDisk purchased M-Systems for $1.5 billion, gaining control of what now appears to be an essential body of technology.

The M-Systems Disk-on-Chip was chosen because it was the de facto standard flash memory harddisk replacement.

The Samsung versus SanDisk story centers on technology patents from a small Israeli company called M-Systems.

M-systems was competing in the flash market with SanDisk, but the introduction of the USB drive made a cooperative environment more financially advantageous.

Ms. Purmal said SanDisk and M-Systems would begin shipping the first U3-compliant flash drives with preinstalled software this summer.

M-Systems' product, developed by a team led by Dan Harkabi, and named the DiskOnKey, was announced in September 2000.

As early as 1998, Toshiba and M-Systems signed mutual agreements to develop and market a number of products for which Toshiba was a sole source.

The DiskOnChip was developed at the R&D Center established by M-Systems called EUROM.

U3 was a joint venture between SanDisk and M-Systems, producing a proprietary method of launching Windows applications from special USB flash drives.

IBM first marketed the drives in North America in 2000, with its product the "DiskOnKey" (manufactured by the Israeli company M-Systems).

M-Systems, a fabless company, agreed in 2003 to license the technology to Samsung in exchange for monetary royalty payments and good terms on which to purchase flash from Samsung.

Competing claims have been made by a Singaporean company Trek Technology and a Chinese company Netac Technology, but based on patents that post-date M-Systems'.

The specification was authored and jointly proposed by M-Systems and SCM Microsystems, who also provided the first working implementations of FTL.

IBM was the first to market USB flash drives in North America, purchasing them from M-Systems and selling them under the IBM-brand label.

M-Systems released some of the first NAND flash drives for use in rugged industrial and military computers, the onboard systems for the Israeli Defense Force tanks and aircraft.

The relationship with Saifun Semiconductors included a US$10 million investment from M-Systems (25% of the total funding Saifun raised) to build products around Saifun's NROM technology.