After Eli Harari keynote, the Sandisk CEO went on with a short Q&A session.
On his motivation of creating the first flash memory and thus founding Sandisk over 20 years ago after leaving Intel:
” Solid state disks replacing disk drives is something I talked to Andy Grove and Gordon Moore at Intel in 1981, 27 years ago… We could do that in semiconductors… I’m just very lucky… This was my PhD thesis in radiation effects in space. The physics was the same… It just happened!”.
Sandisk CEO to the Hard Disk Drive “guys”: Don’t worry… at least for the next 10 years when3D read/write Flash memory launches
“Flash – at least for the next several years – is incapable of replacing a big part of disk drives. It will complement disk drives and in some markets it will replace disk drives. Because disk drives are so cost effective in… desktop and applications, I think the mobile space is where we’ll make a big play. And eventually the world will be mobile… 10 years from now”.
Sandisk on future investments
“We’re not looking at anything that replace DRAM, SRAM or even NOR Flash. We’re looking at anything that will give you very low cost, very reliable storage that is extendable, scalable… that people could manufacture in high volume. And part of that is a systems solution. System is critical. There’s no way I believe that you can dig out the signal from these memory chip without having a complete solution (air correction, security…)”.
Extreme UV Lithography is going to happen faster than thought. Will help scale to 20-nm, 12-nm chips
