Fujio Masuoka, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Fujio Masuoka

Japanese inventor

Date of Birth: 08-May-1943

Place of Birth: Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Profession: university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Fujio Masuoka (?? ???, 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.
He also invented the first gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFET (GAAFET) transistor, an early non-planar 3D transistor, in 1988.