Dr fujio masuoka biography for kids

Born in Takasaki, Gunma, Japan, he is the inventor of flash memory while working for Toshiba around 1980. He attended high school in Takasaki, Japan and became interested in integrated circuits while in the Physics and Electronics group.

He then attended Tohoku University at Sendai majoring in Electrical Engineering, and received his Ph.D. He joined Toshiba in 1971.

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He was supposed to be working on chips called DRAMs (for dynamic random-access memory), which became the workhorses of the personal-computer revolution. But such semiconductors retain data only when the computer is switched on. That wasn't good enough for him, though.

His heart was set on memory chips that would preserve the user's data whether the power was on or off, thus eliminating the need for fragile hard-disk drives. Nobody anticipated such a development in the early 1980s, when he began bucking conventional wisdom on data storage.

"Simply put, I wanted to make a chip that could o