Short for electrically erasable programmable read-only memory, EEPROM is a PROM that can be erased and reprogrammed using an electrical charge. EEPROM was developed by George Perlegos while at Intel in 1978 and unlike most memory inside a computer, it remembers its data without power.

EEPROM was a replacement for PROM and EPROM chips and is used for later computer’s BIOS that were built after 1994. Having a computer with an EEPROM allows the user to update the computer BIOS without having to open the computer or remove any chips.

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Where is the ROM on a computer?

For the computer, the main EEPROM and BIOS is on the computer motherboard.

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Other expansion cards and devices may have an EEPROM or ROM on them as well.

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