Fujio Masuoka
A Japanese engineer at Toshiba, Masuoka is widely recognized for inventing NOR and NAND flash memory in the early 1980s, which paved the way for USB flash drives and SSDs.
Key facts
- Role
- Inventor
- Nationality
- Japanese
- Born
- 1943
A Japanese engineer at Toshiba, Masuoka is widely recognized for inventing NOR and NAND flash memory in the early 1980s, which paved the way for USB flash drives and SSDs.