nonvolatile
adjective
non·vol·a·tile
ˌnän-ˈvä-lə-tᵊl 
: not volatile: such as
a
: not vaporizing readily
a nonvolatile solvent
b
of a computer memory
: retaining data when power is shut off
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To meet these needs, consumer devices tend to rely on systems-on-a-chip – chips that combine processing and storage – with dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, and NAND, a type of nonvolatile memory.
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Vidya Mani, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
The most promising of these new technologies are nonvolatile memories, which can be used for long-term storage or to provide a memory that retains information when powered down.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Instead, in most analog AI schemes, the weights are stored in one of several types of nonvolatile memory as a conductance value (the resistances above).
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
The device may contain crash data in nonvolatile memory, and it has been shipped off to its manufacturer to see what, if anything, can be recovered.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
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Vidya Mani, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
The most promising of these new technologies are nonvolatile memories, which can be used for long-term storage or to provide a memory that retains information when powered down.
—Thomas Coughlin, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2026
Instead, in most analog AI schemes, the weights are stored in one of several types of nonvolatile memory as a conductance value (the resistances above).
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2025
The device may contain crash data in nonvolatile memory, and it has been shipped off to its manufacturer to see what, if anything, can be recovered.
—Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 12 Mar. 2025
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“Nonvolatile.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonvolatile. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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