Chih-Yuan Lu, President/CTO, Macronix International Co. Ltd

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Dr. Chih-Yuan Lu has invented and led the developments of new-generation non-volatile memories (NVM). He and his team pioneered and matured multiple technologies, including high-density 4-bit-per-cell NVM, BE-SONOS devices scaling down to deep nanometer, 3D Single-Gate Vertical Channel structured NVM, high-resiliency memory with on-chip self-annealing, and advanced 3D NOR Flash memories. These breakthroughs have led to new generation products and laid the foundation for the future of NVM technologies, enabling applications across AI, mobile, cloud, and edge computing.

Dr. Lu was born in Guangzhou, China in 1950, and received his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University in 1977.