Flash memory
Memoria flash
- Date
- 1980-1987 · confidence high
- Place
- Toshiba, Kawasaki, Japan
- Credited to
- Fujio Masuoka (Toshiba); NOR presented in 1984, NAND in 1987
- People
- 👤 Fujio Masuoka1943–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Non-volatile semiconductor memory, electrically erasable in blocks and with no moving parts. It is the storage of mobile phones, cameras, USB drives and SSDs.
What it led to
- Digital photography and the mobile phone with internal storage
- Replacement of the hard disk by solid-state drives
- Samsung, Kioxia and Micron's leadership in memory
Built on
- Quantum tunnelling1928
- MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor)1959
- EEPROM
- Floating-gate MOSFET