Fujio Masuoka is a Japanese engineer, who has worked for Toshiba and Tohoku University, and is currently chief technical officer of Unisantis Electronics.
11 Facts About Fujio Masuoka
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Fujio Masuoka is best known as the inventor of flash memory, including the development of both the NOR flash and NAND flash types in the 1980s.
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Fujio Masuoka invented the first gate-all-around MOSFET transistor, an early non-planar 3D transistor, in 1988.
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Fujio Masuoka was excited mostly by the idea of non-volatile memory, memory that would last even when power was turned off.
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Fujio Masuoka developed the "floating gate" technology that could be erased much faster.
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Fujio Masuoka filed a patent in 1980 along with Hisakazu Iizuka.
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In 1988, a Toshiba research team led by Fujio Masuoka demonstrated the first gate-all-around MOSFET transistor.
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Fujio Masuoka became a professor at Tohoku University in 1994.
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In 2004, Fujio Masuoka became the chief technical officer of Unisantis Electronics aiming to develop a three-dimensional transistor, based on his earlier surrounding-gate transistor invention from 1988.
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Fujio Masuoka has a total of 270 registered patents and 71 additional pending patents.
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Fujio Masuoka has been suggested as a potential candidate for the Nobel Prize in Physics, along with Robert H Dennard who invented single-transistor DRAM.