The use of memory devices other than disks and tapes as storage devices can be traced back 40 years ago. For example, RAM and ROM were used to store data and program codes in the 1960s. By the 1990s, flash memory surged in popularity, appearing in USB drives and memory cards of various portable gadgets.

Hyperstone introduced its S6 MultiMediaCard^TM (MMC) and SecureDigital^TM - SD Card controller compliant to MMC4.2 and SD 2.0. Together with Hyperstone's patented wear leveling and most robust firmware, S6 offers highest reliability, endurance, and superior performance for flash solutions based on all Single Level Cell (SLC) and Multi Level Cell (MLC) Flash Memories.

Hyperstone introduces F3 family of CompactFlash™ and Solid State Disk controllers providing superior power efficiency, reliability, and fail safe features for Flash Memory applications. Targeting applications such as Solid State Disk (SSD), Disk-on-Module (DoM), CompactFlash™ (CF) cards, and embedded Flash or disks-on-board, the F3 together with firmware provides lowest power consumption, highest reliability, endurance, and rigorous fail safe features for all Single Level Cell (SLC) and Multi Level Cell (MLC) based Flash Memory solutions.

Flash memory has significantly replaced various historic storage media. As examples, some 5 years back people still used film in non-digital cameras, computers were offering floppy disk drives, mobile CD players played your favorite tunes, and mobile phones were incapable of taking pictures, browsing the web or synchronizing with a PC.