Title : 
Great Encounters Leading Me to the Inventions of Flash Memories and Surrounding Gate Transistor Technology
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Unisantis Electron. Japan, Sendai, Japan
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper presents the history of the erasable programmable read-only memory, flash memories, and DRAM as encountered by the author.
         
        
            Keywords : 
DRAM chips; flash memories; history; DRAM; erasable programmable read-only memory; flash memories; surrounding gate transistor technology; Cost benefit analysis; Flash memories; Low power electronics; Memory cells; Scalability;
         
        
        
            Journal_Title : 
Solid-State Circuits Magazine, IEEE
         
        
        
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MSSC.2013.2278058