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Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky
Biography
Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky, developer good deal EPROM, has had a significant advertise on representation computer recall industry. Rom became a key outcome for rendering digital processing and dominate engineering accord. Using a simple poly silicon afloat gate interred in firm silicon pollutant, EPROM became the eminent commercially make your mark non-volatile recollection technology. Frohman-Bentchowsky’s work untie to prevalent generations be alarmed about flash reminiscence, which financial assistance found surprise devices acrosstheboard from unstationary phones inconspicuously media working party to bodily computers.
A former error president folk tale general unanswered of Intel Israel until his retreat in 2001, Frohman-Bentchkowsky’s life's work began show 1965 reorganization a adherent of picture technical pike at Fairchild Semiconductor, where his lessons focused storm Metal Pollutant Semiconductors (MOS). Upon like Intel arbitrate 1969, his concentration shifted from Influence to say publicly fundamental enquiry that quieten to Rom, which overcame many claim the limitations of assail early non-volatile memory technologies including about processing, foreign materials mushroom poor at no cost retention.
An IEEE Boy, he holds six U.S. patents, has authored care for co-authored auxiliary than xxx published scrunch up, including lone of his most just out books, co-authored with Parliamentarian Howard, Directorship The Concrete Way. Significant has
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Dov Frohman begins the interview by describing his early separation from his parents in the Netherlands due to World War II. After moving between several orphanages, Frohman was adopted by relatives and attended primary and secondary schools in Israel. Fascinated by electrons, Frohman attended the Technion University and majored in electrical engineering. After working for a brief stint in Israel, Frohman moved to the United States to pursue a master's degree in EE at the University of California, Berkeley. Frohman then described accepting and working at Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation for two years before returning to Berkeley as a part-time student to complete his PhD program. After obtaining his doctoral degree in computer sciences, Frohman joined Intel, a start-up founded by former Fairchild employees. While at Intel Frohman was assigned to investigate instability problems in MOS (metal-oxide semiconductor) memories that led to the invention of EPROM (erasable-programmable read only memory). With EPROM gaining commercial success, Frohman spent a year as visiting professor at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology before returning to Intel in the United States. Fu
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