Fujio Masuoka

Fujio Masuoka (舛岡 富士雄)
BornMay 8, 1943 (1943-05-08) (age 82)
NationalityJapanese
Alma materTohoku University
Known forFlash memory
NOR flash
NAND flash
GAAFET
AwardsIEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
InstitutionsToshiba
Tohoku University
Unisantis
Doctoral advisorJun-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.

  1. ^ Jeff Katz (September 21, 2012). "Oral History of Fujio Masuoka" (PDF). Computer History Museum. Retrieved March 20, 2017.

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