Fujio Masuoka (舛岡 富士雄) | |
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Born | May 8, 1943 | (age 82)
Nationality | Japanese |
Alma mater | Tohoku University |
Known for | Flash memory NOR flash NAND flash GAAFET |
Awards | IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering |
Institutions | Toshiba Tohoku University Unisantis |
Doctoral advisor | Jun-ichi Nishizawa |
Fujio Masuoka (舛岡 富士雄, Masuoka Fujio; born May 8, 1943) is a Japanese engineer, who has worked for Toshiba and Tohoku University, and is currently chief technical officer (CTO) of Unisantis Electronics. He is best known as the inventor of flash memory, including the development of both the NOR flash and NAND flash types in the 1980s.[1] He also invented the first gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFET (GAAFET) transistor, an early non-planar 3D transistor, in 1988.
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