Spansion: Michael Van Buskirk is Chief Technology Officer
Sunnyvale, Calif.,USA: Spansion, the world's largest producer of NOR Flash memory products, has announced that Michael Van Buskirk has been appointed Chief Technology Officer. Van Buskirk is a 26-year semiconductor industry veteran who has spearheaded a number of Flash memory innovations, including development of the groundbreaking MirrorBit(TM) technology used exclusively in Spansion(TM) Flash memory products. In addition to his new role, Van Buskirk retains his position as group vice president, worldwide engineering and corporate officer of Spansion.

His notable achievements include his role as lead inventor of AMD's negative gate erase technology, simultaneous read-write architecture and MirrorBit technology -- all crucial to advancing the state-of-the-art in the Flash memory industry. MirrorBit technology allows each cell in a Flash chip to store twice as much data as a cell in conventional floating gate technology and is already the baseline technology for strategic Spansion memory products. Van Buskirk has authored a number of technical publications and has been instrumental in securing more than 50 U.S. patents in the field of non-volatile memory over his career.
Back to News Review index page