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Which form of memory is commonly used in phone sim chips?


EPROM


EEPROM


flash memory


solid-state drives

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
EEPROM

SIM cards use electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM) for storing the IMSI, keys, phonebook and other data because it is non-volatile and can be electrically rewritten at the byte/word level. EPROM requires UV erasure (impractical), flash is block-erasable (less suited to frequent small updates), and SSDs are not used in SIMs.