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Angliholic Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

This memory stick/card/chip

This memory stick will enable you to save more than four hundred images in your digital camera.

Hi,
I googled the terms "memory stick, card, and chip," and they all exist. But I wonder it they all refer to the same thing. Thanks.
  

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No, they are different formats for digital memory. A chip is the small integrated circuit that is installed on a memory board or inside a memory stick. It is not independent, and you don't carry one of these.

  • No, they are different formats for digital memory.
  • A chip is the small integrated circuit that is installed on a memory board or inside a memory stick.
  • It is not independent, and you don't carry one of these.
  • A card is an integrated circuit mounted on a flat board that is plugged into a bus (inside a laptop or a tower), or inserted into a reader/writer device (secure digital card.
  • ) You need the proper reader / writer devicefor it to work.
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No, they are different formats for digital memory.
A chip is the small integrated circuit that is installed on a memory board or inside a memory stick. It is not independent, and you don't carry one of these.

A card is an integrated circuit mounted on a flat board that is plugged into a bus (inside a laptop or a tower), or inserted into a reader/writer device (secure digital card. )

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