 Dr. Stefan Lai has joined Ovonyx as Vice President of Business Development, the company has announced. Dr. Lai was until recently, Vice President of the Flash Memory Group and CTO & Co-Director of California Manufacturing and Technology at Intel Corporation.
Ovonyx is developing its array-addressed memory technology through joint development programs with joint development partners including Qimonda, BAE Systems, Intel Corporation, ST Microelectronics, Samsung, Nanochip, and Elpida Memory, which Dr. Lai will now coordinate. Tyler Lowrey, President and CEO of Ovonyx said, "Stefan has consistently demonstrated tremendous success in commercializing nonvolatile memories and we welcome his expertise and business leadership to assist bringing our emerging phase-change memory technology to market." Dr. Lai is credited with co-inventing the ETOX flash memory cell and developing nine successive generations of the product while at Intel. Lai received a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics from California Institute of Technology in 1973 and his Ph.D. in applied quantum physics from Yale University in 1979. He was a Member of the Technical Staff at the IBM Yorktown TJ Watson Research Center from 1979 to 1982 prior to joining Intel Corporation.
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