Engineers found it too cumbersome to build a nonvolatile memory for each bit of information.

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And the SD card is nonvolatile, meaning it requires no power to continue storing information securely.

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That's apparently possible by making the entire chip nonvolatile, as opposed to many current chips that only use nonvolatile merged memory.

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They are also nonvolatile molecules that can't float freely in the air.

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