ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group

Okay kiddo, let me tell you about the Open NAND Flash Interface Working Group (ONFI). It's a group of really smart grown-ups who work together to create standards for how computer chips called NAND Flash memory communicate with other computer parts.

You know how in your toy box there are different kinds of toys that all work together? Like your blocks fit into your wagon, and your puzzle pieces connect to make a picture? Well, computer parts are kind of like that too. They need to fit together properly and communicate with each other so that the computer can work. NAND Flash memory is a really important part because it stores data like pictures, videos, and games.

The ONFI group makes sure that all the companies that make NAND Flash memory use the same rules for how their chips talk to other parts of the computer. This makes it easier for different brands of computer parts to work together, and it also makes it easier for people like your mommy and daddy to buy new computer parts to upgrade their computers.

So, the ONFI group helps to make sure that our computers work well and that we can store lots of cool things in our NAND Flash memory chips. Pretty neat, huh?