 The
Team
 Gregory
Wong is Founder and Principal Analyst. Greg has in-depth
knowledge of the cost, performance and markets and applications
of 2-bit per cell NOR, NROMand NAND flash, 3-bit per cell and
4-bit per cell NANDand 4-bit per cell NROM flash technologies
as well as solid state drives. He also tracks wafer capacity and
NAND and SSD shipments.
Greg has 11 years of management experience in strategic
planning, business development and engineering at Hitachi,
Siemens, ProMOS and Qimonda/Infineon. In these positions, Greg
was responsible for analyzing and evaluating flash memory
vendors’ strategies, process technologies, design architectures,
product performance, manufacturing capabilities and costs. Greg
worked closely with senior management on strategy formulation
and setting operational performance targets. He has worked in
Canada, Japan, China, Taiwan and Germany.
Greg earned his B.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from
the University of Toronto, and his M.B.A. degree from the
Richard Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario.
Contact:
greg@forward-insights.com
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 Josef
Willer is Vice President of Technology. His expertise
lies in the area of semiconductor memories including DRAM,
NOR, NAND, NROM and alternative memory technologies
including FRAM, MRAM, RRAM, phase change memory, nanocrystal
memory, SONOS memory, spin-torque RAM and probe memory
and the related intellectual property.
Josef brings with him a wealth of research and development
experience in semiconductor memories from 26 years at Siemens
Semiconductor / Infineon Technologies / Qimonda AG. Prior to
joining Forward Insights, Josef was a principal at Qimonda Flash
GmbH responsible for evaluating patents and intellectual
property and developing innovative non-volatile memory
technology and novel cell concepts to overcome the ultimate
technology scaling constraints. Josef was instrumental in
enabling the start-up company Ingentix to successfully
demonstrate the feasibility of charge trapping technology for
mass storage products.
In addition to his technical publications, Josef holds numerous
memory-related patents and was named Infineon’s Inventor of the
Year in 2004. He has been a member of the technical committee of
the International Conference on Memory Technology and
Design (now International Memory Workshop) for the past four years.
Josef holds a Ph.D. from the Technical University in
Munich in solid state physics.
Contact:
josef@forward-insights.com
Luca Crippa is Senior Technical Analyst for Design Architecture. Luca has
more than 10 years of experience in MLC flash memory design. Previously,
he was Senior Designer for 48nm floating gate and 36nm floating gate NAND flash memories at Qimonda AG as
well as 90nm and 60nm MLC NAND flash products at STMicroelectronics.
He was instrumental in the development of 64Mb, 128Mb and 256Mb MLC NOR flash products at
STMicroelectronics and is the author/co-author of 20 U.S. patents and the books
Memories in Wireless Systems and Inside NAND Flash Memories.
Luca received his Bachelors degree at ITIS G. Marconi, Dalmine, Italy in 1992 and a Masters degree
in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico of Milan in 1999. His thesis topic was
Analog circuits design for Multilevel Flash Memory.
Contact:
luca@forward-insights.com
 Florian Beug is
Senior Technical Analyst for emerging memory technologies at Forward Insights.
Florian's career spans 10 years in the field of non-volatile flash memory. He was memory cell engineer responsible for 48nm
floating gate and 36nm floating gate NAND flash development and the pre-development of 2xnm floating gate and charge trapping NAND flash memory
at Qimonda AG.
In addition, Florian was a member of the NAND flash pre-development team at Infineon focusing on 75nm, 63nm and 32nm
TwinFlash/NROM charge trapping technologies and also worked on embedded floating gate flash cells of Infineon Technologies, STMicroelectronics and
Philips Semiconductors/NXP.
He is the author or co-author of more than 30 publications in the field of reliability, degradation characterization, and modeling of future NVM
technologies and holds patents in this subject area.
Florian holds a Masters degree in solid state physics and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering both from the University of Hannover, Germany.
Contact:
florian@forward-insights.com
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