Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
FEPROM
Flash EPROM
flash memory
Flash ROM

   <storage> (FEPROM, "flash memory") A kind of {non-volatile
   storage} device similar to {EEPROM}, but where erasing can
   only be done in blocks or the entire chip.

   In 1995 this relatively new technology started to replace
   {EPROMs} because reprogramming could be done with the chip
   installed.  At that time FEPROMs could be rewritten about 1000
   times.

   Like {EAPROM} and ferro-magnetic material, FEPROMs rely on {FN
   tunnelling}.  Some flash memory supports block erase.

   (1995-04-22)