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I can say that my career can be superimposed, for a long time, on the story of non-volatile memories.
There are 10 different kinds of people.
Those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
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Memory-hardware designers always mean bit, speaking about memory size. So, for me, a memory of 1 M means one megabit. Software people always speak about Byte!.
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For me the word bootstrap didn’t have a clear meaning. I knew what the bootstrap is, but when I eventually understood the real meaning of this, and I started to imagine someone trying to lift up himself pulling on the boot straps, I really came to understand the meaning of this in electronics circuits.
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In 1965, just a couple of years after Jack Kilby patented the bipolar transistor, Intel’s co-founder Gordon Moore observed that the number of transistor per square inch in an integrated circuit doubled every year. Moore foresaw that this trend would be valid for the years to come: indeed, the doubling of the density of the active components in an integrated circuit proved to occur every 18 months, and this is the commonly accepted value for the definition of Moore’s law today.
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My first PC, a few years ago, after the Z80 and some other machines, was a 16 MHz clock PC with a 16 MB hard disk. Today, in a cellular phone, the nonvolatile memory is measured in GB.
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This was not a ‘choice’ but, due to the array organization in a NAND structure, it is not possible to apply a current to program with the CHE effect.
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Campardo, G. (2017). Historical Overview of Solid-State Non-Volatile Memories. In: Gastaldi, R., Campardo, G. (eds) In Search of the Next Memory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47724-4_2
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