Dr fujio masuoka biography of rory

Japanese engineer (born 1943)

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.

Dr fujio masuoka biography of rory

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.

Biography

Masuoka attended Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, where he earned an undergraduate degree in engineering in 1966 and doctorate in 1971.^[2] He joined Toshiba in 1971. There, he invented stacked-gate avalanche-injection metal–oxide–semiconductor (SAMOS) memory, a precursor to electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) and flash memory.^[3][4] In 1976, he developed dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) with a do