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I miss physical media, optical or magnetic. Or something new!! Flash drivers are just computers these days.

In what sense is a nand chip, a memory controller, and a usb plug, a "computer these days"?

The flash memory controller is most likely a embedded stored program computer. Likely an arm, maybe dual core.

A modern computer is really a distributed system, but not a lot of people frame the discussion that way.

https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3592

> The embedded microcontroller is typically a heavily modified 8051 or ARM CPU. In modern implementations, the microcontroller will approach 100 MHz performance levels, and also have several hardware accelerators on-die.

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