A Timeline for Flash Memory History [The Art of Storage]

At the annual Flash Memory Summits, we have shown an everexpanding timeline for the history of flash memory, starting in 1967 with the invention of the floating gate memory device by Kahng and Sze of Bell Labs (Figure 1). The timeline now goes out to midyear 2016. We include this timeline with this article to illustrate the development of this key storage technology for many consumer devices. Jim Handy, Brian Berg, and Tom Coughlin put together this ever-growing timeline of advances in solid-state memory and its applications.