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It does look like all the references I can find point to engineers at Toshiba in 1980 coining the name, although Google ngrams shows some references to "flash E
by jmbwell 3y ago
It does look like all the references I can find point to engineers at Toshiba in 1980 coining the name, although Google ngrams shows some references to "flash EPROM" prior to 1980, so I can't help but wonder if the idea existed at least in some form prior to 1980
- monocasa 3y agoLooking into it, those references look miscategorized. It's some Zambian national report that's talking about 0.18um processes (aka, 180nm) in the same paragraph, which wouldn't have come out until the very late 90s.