George Samachisa

George Samachisa is a VP of Technology and a Senior Fellow at SanDisk Corporation. He is well-known as the inventor and developer of the split-gate flash memory cell, which was the first flash memory to be commercialized. This work was done while Samachisa was at Seeq Technology in the mid-1980s. The split gate flash cell is used by companies like SST and Freescale even today (2009). Samachisa has been with SanDisk since 1989, and has lead development of several generations of NOR and NAND flash memory. He has a MS and a PhD from the Universitatea 'Politehnica' din Bucuresti.