> Their first warning went to the companies currently cranking out semiconductor memories, feeding the seeming insatiable demand for solid state storage In wha

> Their first warning went to the companies currently cranking out semiconductor memories, feeding the seeming insatiable demand for solid state storage In what region is it idiomatic to use memories instead of memory to refer to data storage? As an American I'm unfamiliar with such usage. Or is this just a neophyte author?