# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/fujio-masuoka
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:24:01.541Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/fujio-masuoka"
name: "Fujio Masuoka"
slug: "fujio-masuoka"
description: "Fujio Masuoka  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."
tagline: "Japanese inventor (born 1943)"
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gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Japan"
  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-05-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           52.5
  momentum:             4.133099824868652
  historical:           11.58292133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump